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College 



Quod petis hlc est. — Horace, Epist. Lib. I, ri- 29. 



BOWDOIN COLLEGE 



CLASS OF 1853 



C^r0n;0l0gual, §iograp^kaI, atttr Statistical 



RECORD 



PREPARED BY THE SECRETARY, AND PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE CLASS 



It is not time or space knit hearts can sever 

The ties that bound in youth in age remain 
That which we were we are, and are for ever 

Though morning's care-free hours come not again — Fuller 



BOSTON 

JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY 

1873 



LXssi 



" Felices ter et amplius 
Quos irrupta tenet copula." 

Horace, Carm. Lib I, xiii. 17. 

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." 

Shakespeare, Henry V, iv. 3. 



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Pri.nted by Rand, Avkry, & Co., Boston. 



PRELIiMINARY NOTE. 



DEAR CLASSMATES, — ^/ the earliest moment my 
other engagements would allow, I place in your hands 
the Class Record you did me the honor of voting to print. 
Believe me, that I affect no foolish self -derogation, when 
I say that I wish it were worthier of your acceptance. It 
is, at best, but an incomplete account ; yet I have spared no 
time or pains to make it as full and as accurate as I could. 
Its preparation has been a pleasant avocation from severer 
labors ; and if, in your 'judgment, " I have done well, and as 
is fitting the story, it is that which I desired ; but, if slen- 
derly and meanly, it is that which I could attain untoT 

So far as the sketch of our college life is concerned, I appre- 
hend that some of those — - not of the Class — into whose 
hands this little work may fall will think that my task has 
been to " chrofiicle small beer^ Be it so. If you, prefer that 
innocent beverage to more " rebellious liquors," who shall gain- 
say your freedom of choice f Doubtless even small beer has its 
appointed place and use in the economy of the universe ; and, 
in like manner, to tts this " trivial, fond recdrd^' has a value 
and interest peculiarly its own. If it re-animates the past; if it 
recalls pleasures and experiences in which once we all shared ; if 
it strengthens or renews those early friendships and hopes and 
aspirations — - 

^^ Which always find 21 s young, 
And always keep ns so^'' 



iv ^relitninars 0.(itt. 

has it 7tot a good and sufficient reason for being f Let this be 
as" it will, I may say with Milton, '^ Paucis hujus 7nodi 
lectoribiis cont entusT 

Some of the biographical notices, it will be observed, are 
fnller thaji others. This disproportion results, partly, from the 
fact that the lives of some of us have been more active and 
eventful than those of others ; but it is also due, in large part, 
to the relative fullness or meagerness of the accounts of them- 
selves furnished me by members of the Class in response to the 
circular and blank I sent to each of them about a year ago. I 
have, in the main, given merely such information as was sup- 
plied to me ; and, in every case, I have given it substantially ijt 
the phraseology of the writer. 

Notwithstandiitg the strenuous efforts I have made to obtain 
likenesses of all the members of the Class, I have not succeeded 
as well as I hoped to do. From the sheet of earlie r pictures, 
the following faces will be missed: E. C. Cummings, Foss, 
McKeen, Page, Pond, Thompson ; also, from the sheet of 
la ter pictures, the faces of McKeen and Thompson. The dates 
to be assigned to the earlier likenesses are as follows : Adams 
(1850), Barton {about 1853), Carruthers (1856), Crosby 
(1852), R. W. Cummings (1854), Downes (1855), Drew (1854), 
Drummond (1853), J. W. Emery (1853), M. Emery {1853), 
Fuller (1855), Goodenow (i860), Kidder (1852), Kim- 
ball (1853), Langdon (1853), McArthur {1853), Place 
{1850), Puffer (about 1853), Simonton (1852), Southgate 
(1853), Spaulding {probably 1855), Todd {about 1853), 
Tucker {about 1849), Upham {about 1855), Walker (1848), 
Webb (1858), Wheeler {about 1850). The later likenesses 
are all of the present year, except the following : E. C. Cum- 
mings (1871), R. W. Cummings (1865), J. W. Emery (1870), 
Foss (1866), Fuller (1871), Kidder (1872), Kimball {1861), 
McArthur {about 1865), Page (1867), Webb (1868). The 
sheets containing these pictures are each graced with a likeness 
of Miss Ellen Julia Kimball, the " Class Baby,'' taken in 
1857 and 1873 respectively. As to the later of these tzvo like- 
nesses, t J lose who had the pleasure of m,eeti7tg Miss Kimball 
at our recent re-union, will, I think, agree that it is an excel- 



preliminars ^ate. v 

/e/if one ; while those who Jiad not that pleasure, will, at least, 
recognize in it a marked resemblance to her gallant father. 

The earlier pictures of the college officers — with the single 
exception of Tittor Smyth — are fro^n steel engravings executed 
in 1852 for the ^^ Bowdoin Memorial,'' which Mr, Nehemiah 
Cleaveland will some day, perhaps, give to a constantly increas- 
ing host of very patient waiters. The portrait of Professor 
Cleaveland is from an oil painting by Badger, made in 1825 : 
that of Professor Goodwin is from a cameo, and represents 
htm as he looked in the summer of 1837. The later likenesses 
on the same sheet are from comparatively recent photographs, 
with the exception of that of Professor Smyth. 

The " counterfeit presentment " of " Diogenes " is from a 
photograph taken in 1861, under the following circumstances : 
i7i 1 860, General John M. Brown, then a member of the Sen- 
ior ClasSy engaged his attention, while Bumham, a Portland 
artist, took his photograph from a building near by. Consid- 
ered either as a likeness or as a picture^ the result was not at 
all satisfactory ; but it served the purpose — especially when 
coupled with a douceur of twenty -five dollars — of inducing 
him to give Mr. Bumham, a sitting, from which a good photo- 
graph was obtained. 

If to any one the general effect of the sheets of grouped pic- 
tures is somewhat disappointing., the heliotype process must not 
therefore be condemned ; for it is to be borne in mijid that many 
of the likenesses are copies of copies, and that the originals are 
of very different degrees of merit, being, in not a few cases ^ in- 
ferior specimens of work mans hip., even at a time when the pho- 
tographic art was in its infancy. That the best result practicable 
under the circumstances., has been 7'eached, I am well assured. 

I beg to suggest that it would be a good plan for each of you 
to have one of your copies of this work interleaved, or else bound 
with a goodly number of blank leaves at the end, — in either 
case taking care to have a sufficient number of ^^ guards'" in- 
serted, — and so to provide yourself with a convenient scrap-book 
or receptacle for photographs, autographs, newspaper cuttings, 
memo7''anda, and memorials of whatever kind, relating to the 
Class, or to any member of it. Whether this is done or not, 



VI ^rEUminarjj^otc. 

however, I would earnestly request each of you to keep me ap- 
prised of any noteworthy occurrence or fact in your ozvn history^ 
and also to inform me of any errors or defects you may discover 
in the followijtg pages, so that the Secretary s Record, at least, 
may always be found full and correct. 

For assistance in making it so up to this time, my especial 
thanks are due to Fuller, Goodenow, ^?^<3?Spaulding, though 
I have gratefully to acknowledge the kind and ready co-op eratio7t 
of 7iearly all the rest of our little company. It is also my duty 
and my privilege to express my obligations to the friends of 
deceased classmates for their goodness in answering the ques- 
tions I foiuid it necessary to send to them, and for other favors 
they have shown me. 

I purpose sending copies of this Record, in the nam,e of the 
Class, to the 7iea7'est relative of each deceased member ; to each 
of the survivi7tg professors who were our instructors in college ; 
and to a few other persons whom I, as your representative^ am 
in co7nmoji courtesy^ and for various reasons, bound to remember 
in the same maniter. The remainder of the edition — of two 
hundred copies — will be equally divided among those who co7t- 
tributed to defray the cost of printing and illiLstrating it. 

Having been authorized {see p. 33) to call a meetijtg of the 
Class whenever, in my judgment, it may be best to do so, I here- 
by give notice that the next meeting {commemorative of the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of our graduation) will be held at 
Brunswick, in 1878, at some time during Commencement week, 
to be Jiereafter designated. May all those who were present, or 
are living this year., be living and present then ! 

WILLIAM A. WHEELER. 
Boston, October 15, 1873. 



CONTENTS. 



[Note, — *Dead; t Non-graduates.] 

• PAGE. 

I. CHRONOLOGICAL i to 34 

Chronology of the Class from 1849 to 1853 .... 3 

Post-graduation Meetings 23 

IL BIOGRAPHICAL 35 to 82 

Adams , .... 37 

*tBARTON 38 

Carruthers 39 

tCROSBY 40 

CUMMINGS (iSt) . 41 

tCUMMINGS (2cl) . 42 

DowNES 44 

Drew 45 

*tDRUMMOND 46 

Emery (ist) 47 

Emery (2d) 49 

Foss 51 

Fuller 5^ 

goodenow 54 

t Kidder 55 

*KiMBALL 56 

Kimball (Miss), the Class Baby 5^ 

Langdon • • • 59 

McArthur . . '59 

McKeen . . • .60 

Page 61 

Place 62 

Pond .62 

*Puffer , . . 64 



viii (JTontcnts. 

SiMONTON 65 

*southgate 66 

Spaulding 69 

tTHOMPSON 70 

Todd 71 

tTucKER 73 

tUPHAM 74 

*tWALKER . 76 

*Webb 77 

Wheeler ' 80 

III. STATISTICAL 83 to 106 

Roll of the Class 85 

Place of Birth 86 

Year of Birth ' . . .87 

Time of Entrance . . . 87 

Age at Entrance 88 

Rooms and Room-Mates 89 

Buildings, Ends, Floors, and Rooms occupied ... 91 

Society Membership 95 

Age at Graduation , . .96 

Degrees received 96 

Marriages '97 

Children 98 

Unmarried 100 

Widowers 100 

Divorced 100 

Deaths 100 

Present Residence loi 

Occupations 102 

Present Profession or Occupation 103 

Physical Characteristics 104 

Non-Graduates, and the Time of their leaving the Class 105 

Graduates of other Classes 105 

Graduates of other Colleges . . . . . . .105 

General Summary 105 

Additions and Corrections • 107 



I 

CHRONOLOGICAL 



" Accipite hsec animis, laetasque advertite mentes." — Virgil, /^n. v, 304. 

" Volti a levante, ond' eravam saliti, 
Che suole a riguardar giovare altrui." — Dante, Purg. iv. 54. 

" Pregunta lo que quisieres, hijo Sancho, respondi6 Don Quijote, que yo te satisfar^ y respondere 
toda tu voluntad." — Cervantes, Don Quijote, cap. xlviii. 

" To the sessions of sweet silent thought 
I summon up remembrance of things past." — Shakespeare, Son. xxx. 



CHRONOLOGY OF THE CLASS 

FROM 1849 TO 1853. 



INTRODUCTORY, 



1849. July, Thompson and Wheeler, after a private and separate 
examination, were admitted members of the Freshman Class 
of 1849-50, they having been found to have complied with 
the following 

TERMS OF ADMISSION. 

Candidates for admission into the Freshman Class are required to write Latin 
grammatically, and to be well versed in Geography, Arithmetic, six sections in 
Smyth's Algebra, Cicero's Select Orations (Folsom's edition preferred), the 
Bucolics, Georgics, and ^neid of Virgil (the whole), Sallust (Andrews's edition), 
the Gospels of the Greek Testament, and Jacobs's (or Felton's) Greek Reader, 
together with Latin and Greek Prosody. They must produce certificates of 
their good moral character. The time for examination is the Friday after Com- 
mencement, and the first Thursday in the Fall Term. Candidates for admission 
into the other classes will be examined also in the books which have been 
studied by the class into which admission is requested. Students from other 
colleges, before they can be examined, must produce a certificate of their 
regular dismission. The Geography to be studied may be Morse's, Wor- 
cester's, or Woodbridge's. There will be a special examination in Ancient 
Geography. 

N. B. — Particular attention to the writing of Latin is urged as essential for 
a suitable preparation to the college course. The examination in the grammar 
of the Greek and Latin Languages, including the prosody of both, and in writing 
Latin, will be particular. 

Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, and the Greek Grammar of Sopho- 
cles, are preferred. 



4 SntroUuctorg. 

1849. August. At a special examination of the Graduating Class 
of North Yarmouth Academy, the following persons were 
admitted Freshmen ; viz., Elijah B. Chandler, Ralph W. 
Cummings, Henry R. Downes, H. Clay Goodenow, Wil- 
liam M. McArthur, William H. Todd, Francis E. Webb. 
Chandler (born January 14, 183 1) never joined the Class, 
though his name appeared in the catalogue as a member 
of it during the Freshman and Sophomore Years. For 
some account of him see a letter from Goodenow to the 
Secretary, dated February 18, 1873, which is on file. 

September 7 (the Friday after Commencement). Exami- 
nation and admission of Jonathan E. Adams, William 
Carruthers, Charles Drummond, Melville W. Fuller, Joseph 
McKeen, jun., John B. Southgate, William Walker, James 
W. Emery, George S. Kimball, Kingman F. Page, David 
M. Place, Jeremiah E. Pond, Thaddeus R. Simonton, John 
S. Tucker, and Nathaniel L. Upham Emery, however, 
did not join the Class until the beginning of the Sophomore 
Year. Ephraim C. Cummings appears on the "Entrance 
Book " of the college as having been admitted at the same 
time; but he had passed his examination August 27, 1841, 
when he graduated from North Yarmouth Academy. 

September 27 (Thursday). John L. Crosby arid Marcellus 
Emery were examined, and admitted as members of the 
Class. Emery was a member of the Graduating Class of 
North Yarmouth Academy, but had been prevented by 
sickness from attending the special examination of that 
Class in August. 



Freshman Year, 
1849-50. 



FALL TERM, 



[Course of Study. — Memorabilia of Xenophon, Greek Grammar, Fol- 
som's Livy (two books), Smyth's Algebra, Exercises in Elocution.] 

1849. September 26 (Wednesday). Term began. 

October i (Monday). Class recited together for the first 

time, the lesson being the first two pages in Livy, and 

the instructor Professsor Upham. 
October 13 (Saturday). A Freshman room was entered by 

three or more Seniors " in a state of intoxication," one of 

w^hom, at least, was suspended for the offence. 
October 16 (Tuesday). Notice was given to the Class by 

Professor Upham, that " boarding at a tavern " was a 

violation of the thirty-fourth law of the college, which, in 

future, would be rigidly enforced. 
November 22. Public exhibition of the Senior and Junior 

Classes. 
December 19 (Wednesday). Examination. 
December 21 (Friday). Term closed, followed by a vacation 

of eight weeks. 

Note. — During this term the Class contained twenty-five members ; namely, 
Adams, Carruthers, Cummings (1st), Cummings (2d), Downes, Drummond, M, 
Emery, Fuller, Goodenow, Kimball, McArthur, McKeen, Page, Place, Pond, 
Simonton, Southgate, Spaulding, Thompson, Todd, Tucker, Upham, Walker, 
Webb, and Wheeler. Webb did not make his appearance for a week or 



6 BofajtiDin College. 

more after the beginning of the term. Tuesday, October i6, Spaulding, who 
had been a member of the Middle Class at Yarmouth, and who had studied late 
and early, and all through the vacation, to enter college with the Graduating 
Class from the academy, passed a private and satisfactory examination, and was 
admitted without conditions. 

In the second week of the term the Sophomores planned to " initiate " the 
Class, but ignominiously failed to do so, the design having prematurely taken 
air. 

No catalogue was issued this term, though it had been usual for the students 
to get one out in the fall ; the regular annual catalogue published by the col- 
lege not making its appearance until about the middle, of the Spring Term. 

" Fishing " for the secret and general societies was actively carried on, with 
the following result ; R. W. Cummings and McKeen joined the A. A.4>. ; Fuller 
and Kimball, the X. ■^. ; Adams, Carruthers, M. Emery, Goodenow,.Pond, South- 
gate, Spaulding, Todd, and Webb, the 'i'. T. ; E. C. Cummings, Drummond, 
Crosby, Page, Simonton, Tucker, Upham, Walker, and Wheeler, the A. K. E. 
McArthur, Place, and Thompson did not unite with any secret society. For 
accessions to the Peucinian and Athenaean Societies, see Spring Term. 

Walker left the Class at the end of this term. 

During the winter vacation E. C, Cummings taught school in Portland ; 
Ralph W. Cummings, at "Flying Point," Freeport; M. Emery, at Winterport ; 
Place, at Charleston, Maine; Simonton, at Hope; Spaulding, at Hope Corner ; 
Tucker, at Topsham ; Wheeler, at Topsham ; Upham, at Pembroke, New Hamp- 
shire. 



SPRING TERM. 

[Course of Study. — Xenophon's Memorabilia, Odyssey (commenced), 
Greek Grammar, Livy, Smyth's Algebra, Eschenburg's Manual, Exercises in 
Elocution, Weekly Exercises in Latin Prose Composition, Arnold's Greek Prose 
Composition, Paley's Natural Theology.] 

1850. February 15 (Friday). Term began. 

March 8 (Friday). Carruthers, R. W. Cummings, Downes, 
Drummond, M. Emery, Fuller, Goodenow, Pond, South- 
gate, Spaulding, Thompson, Todd, Tucker, and Wheeler 
were initiated into the Athenaean Society. 

Crosby, E. C. Cummings, McKeen, McArthur, Page, 
Place, and Upham were initiated into the Peucinian 
Society. 

April 24 (Wednesday). Anniversary of the Peucinian 
Society. 

April 25 (Thursday). Anniversary of the Athenaean Society. 

May II (Saturday). May training. 



Class of 183 3. 7 

1850. May 14 (Tuesday). Public exhibition of the Senior and 
Junior Classes. 
May 17 (Frida}'). Term closed, followed by a vacation of 
two weeks. 

Note. — At the beginning of this term, class-caps were introduced. They 
were made in Portland, under the direction of R. W. Cummings, who had been 
appointed in the fall a committee to procure them. They had straight or hori- 
zontal visors, above which was the device of a rising sun, borrowed from the 
arms of the Bowdoin family ; and they cost $1.80 each. 

Professor Stowe became connected with the college as Collins Professor of 
Natural and Revealed Religion. His lectures on Jonah and on the first chapter 
of Genesis will be remembered with peculiar pleasure. Has any classmate for- 
gotten his exegesis of 55^3 (ba-ra, or " baw-raw " ) ? 

In accordance with an established custom, the Class replaced in the grove at 
the rear of the college buildings the gymnastic apparatus (consisting mainly 
of two sets of parallel bars, two vaulting horses, two horizontal bars, and a 
suspended knotted rope) which had been destroyed (also in accordance with an 
established custom) by the Sophomore Class. 

Early in the term, a Freshman debating- club was organized, in conformity with 
the practice of previous classes. Essays, poetical squibs, etc., AA^ere in order at 
the meetings, as well as regular debates. Webb was president ; and Spaulding 
helped to prepare the constitution. 

About the same time, a secret club was formed, composed exclusively of 
members of the Class who were graduates of North Yarmouth Academy. It 
was called the "Alpha Beta Fraternity," from its motto, '"AA,V;?.wz/ Bor)doL." 
Its objects were literary culture and friendly social intercourse. The organization 
was kept up, it is thought, until into the Summer Term. 

In March, Walker, at his own request, was regularly dismissed from college. 



SUMMER TERM. 

[Course of Study. — Odyssey, Greek Grammar, Excerpta Latina (Patercu- 
lus and Quintus Curtius), Eschenburg's Manual, Smyth's Algebra, Paley's Natu- 
ral Theology, Exercises in Elocution, Weekly Exercises in Latin Prose Compo- 
sition, Arnold's Greek Prose, Review of the Studies of the Year.] 

1850. May 31 (Friday). Term began. 

June 7 (Friday). Simonton and Webb elected to the Peu- 

cinian Society. 
June 14 (Friday). Kimball initiated into the Athenaean 

Society. 
June 19 (Wednesday). E. C. Cummings chosen third editor 

of the Peucinian Society. 



8 Bobjti0tnCoIlEgE. 

1850. June 20 (Thursday). R. W. Cummings elected third editor: 
Downes, third librarian ; and Todd, third on the standing 
committee of the Athenaean Society. 

July 13 (Saturday). The Theological Society voted to dis- 
band, and intrusted its library of about 1,250 volumes (in- 
cluding the collection given to it by the Peace Society at 
its dissolution in August, 1842) to the Praying Circle, by 
whom it was subsequently deposited in the college library. 

August 26 (Monday). Prize declamation of the Junior and 
Sophomore Classes. 

August 29 (Thursday). Examination, Freshman Supper 
(oration by Webb), and Bonfire. 

September 4 (Wednesday). Commencement, and close of 
the term, followed by a vacation of three vreeks. 

Note. — One morning, on arriving at the recitation room in Winthrop Hall, 
Tutor Smyth found himself unable to effect an entrance, the door and the windows 
having been securely fastened on the inside. The room was afterwards dis- 
covered to contain about half a ton of hay, which had been placed there by 
several members of the Class, who had worked diligently half the night carrying 
it in from the college grounds on poles. During the day, it was pitched out of 
the window by " Professor Dunning." Towards night, when it had become very 
dry, McArthur — with that reckless daring which he afterwards turned to so 
good account in the war — threw a lighted match into it from Downes and 
Spaulding's room above ; and, had not some students almost immediately 
extinguished the fire, a serious conflagration might have ensued. 

The bonfire was in the north-eastern part of the campus, and near the 
fence, which suffered considerably. It was mainly built of brushwood and 
barrels of rosin heaped round a pole or mast set into the ground. To defray 
the cost, an assessment of one dollar was levied on each member of the 
Class ; but additional money was raised by subscription. The assessment for 
the Class Supper was also one dollar. 

During this term, McArthur left college, and did not rejoin the Class until the 
beginninu' of the Senior Year. At the end of the term, Upham severed his 
connection with the Class and the college, and entered the Sophomore Class at 
Dartmouth. 



Sophomore Year, 
1850-51. 



*^* 1850. Thursday, September 26. Drew, Kidder, Langdon, and Puffer, 
having been examined in the preparatory studies and in those of the Freshman 
Year, were admitted as members of the Class, J. W. Emery, who had been 
admitted Freshman in 1849 (September 7), joined the Class after having passed 
a satisfactory examination in the studies pursued by them. A legacy was received 
from the preceding Sophomore Class, in the person of Foss, who had remained 
out of college during the year 1849-50. 

FALL TERM. 

[Course of Study. — Demosthenes (Olynthiacs), Horace (Odes), Legen- 
dre's Geometry, French Language (Spiers's and Surenne's Pronouncing Dic- 
tionary, Value's Ollendorff's Grammar, and Fivas's Classic French Reader).] 



1850. September 25 (Wednesday). Term commenced. 

October 18 (Friday). Simonton elected third librarian of 
the Peucinian Society. 

November 22 (Friday). A committee of one from each 
class was appointed in the Athenaean Society to solicit 
subscriptions for erecting a building for the use of the two 
general literary societies, and for the reception of their 
libraries. A similar committee was raised shortly after- 
wards (in December) in the Peucinian Society. Very little, 
however, was done by either committee; and the project 
soon fell through. 



lo Bobitiain College. 

1850. December 3 (Tuesday). Public exhibition of the Senior and 
Junior Classes. 
December 18 (Wednesday). Examination. 
December 20 (Friday). Close of the term, followed by a 
vacation of eight weeks. 



Note. — During this term, the Class numbered more members than at any 
other period of the college course. It consisted of the following twenty-eight 
persons ; namely, Adams, Carruthers, Crosby, Cummings (ist), Cummings (2d), 
Downes, Drew, Drummond, Emery (ist), Emery (2d), Foss, Fuller, Goodenow, 
Kidder, Kimball, Langdon, McKeen, Page, Place, Pond, Puffer, Simonton, 
Southgate, Spaulding, Thompson, Todd, Webb, Wheeler. Mc Arthur's name 
appears in the catalogue ; but he was absent from college, and did not rejoin 
the Class until the beginning of the Senior Year. The names of Elijah Bartlett 
Chandler, Nathan Cutler Goodenow, Charles Addison Hill, Benjamin Webber 
Kimball, and John Stacy Tucker, are also entered in the catalogue ; but they 
were not bona fide members of the Class. Tucker, indeed, had formally severed 
his connection with the college, receiving a certificate of " regular dismission," 
April 26, 1850. 

Of the new members, Drew joined the X, ■^. Society ; Kidder, the A. A. <I>. ; 
and J. W. Emery, Langdon, and Puffer, the A. K. E. 

At the beginning of the term, Adams took charge of the college bell, as 
successor of Pollard, of the Senior Class, which had just graduated. At the 
same time, a club, known as " Richardson's Club," was opened at Commons 
Hall, The members found it "very cheap board" in both senses of the 
adjective. 

Soon after the term commenced, those members of the Freshman Class who 
had rooms in the college buildings were *' examined " and " initiated," in accord- 
ance with a tradition and custom which no graduate will regard as other than 
foolish and reprehensible ; yet ^'■forsan Jkxc ineminisse jiivabit.'''' The pleasure 
will certainly not be lessened by reflecting that the Sophomores of the preceding 
year took counsel of their discretion, and concluded not to '* try it on " with our 
own Class. 

Kidder left the Class at the end of the term, and did not return to college 
again. 

Spaulding taught the village granmiar school during this term, and M. Emery 
was absent teaching in Bovvdoinham. During the vacation, Adams kept school 
in Sedgwick ; Crosby, in Sunkhaze (now Costigan) ; E. C. Cummings, in Casco ; 
R. W. Cummings, in Thomaston ; J. W. Emeiy, in Brownfield Center; M. 
Emery, at Yarmouth ; Foss, at Harpswell Neck (or Bowdoinham or Gardiner; 
is uncertain which) ; Place, at Hartford, New Hampshire ; Pond, in Brewer ; 
Simonton, in Vinalhaven ; Spaqlding, in Brunswick (village grammar school); 
and Webb, at Yarmouth. 



Class of 1853. II 



SPRING TERM, 

[Course of Study. — Demosthenes (Philippics, &c.), Horace (Satires and 
Epistles), Cicero De Officiis, Smyth's Trigonometry, Cambridge Mathematics 
(Heights and Distances, Surveying, and Navigation), French Language (Fivas's 
Classic French Reader), Newman's Rhetoric] 

185 1. February 14 (Friday). Term commenced. 

March 7 (Friday). Drew, J. W. Emery, Langdon, and Puffer 

were initiated into the Athenaean Society. Foss was already 

a member, liaving been admitted in the spring of 1849, 

while belonging to the then Freshman Class. 
May 10 (Saturday). May training, some account of which 

is contained in a letter from J. W. Emery to the Secretary 

(dated February 7, 1873), which is on file. 
May 20 (Tuesday). Public exhibition of the Senior and 

Junior Classes. 
May 21 (Wednesday). Examination. 
May 23 (Friday). Term closed, followed by a vacation of 

two weeks. 

Note. — McArthur's name w^as omitted from the catalogue published during 
this term. 

Members of the Freshman Class who had rooms in the college buildings, 
and who had not joined their class at the beginning of the college year, were 
made the subjects of a supplementary " initiation," or hazing, which was con* 
ducted with the usual ceremonies. 

A secret club, composed wholly of 'f. T. members of the Class, was organized 
early in the term, and was styled "Our Society." Meetings were held on 
Saturday evenings, when a "paper," prepared by the members, was read, and 
criticisms were made upon themes and upon other literary productions which 
were presented for the purpose. The organization was maintained for two 
terms, and possibly longer. 

About the middle of May, Thompson left the Class, and went to Europe with 
Charles Carroll Everett. On his return, in November, 1852, he joined the 
Sophomore Class of that year, and. was graduated in 1855. R. W. Cummings 
also quitted college during this term, having lost ground in consequence of 
illness, and not feeling himself physically equal to the task of catching up with 
the Class. 

Towards the end of the term, the Class had another bonfire, composed mainly 
of slabs feloniously obtained by certain members. A prosecution being threat- 
ened, the matter was settled by the payment of about eleven dollars, which was 
raised by an assessment of eighty-five cents on each classmate. The slabs were 
the property of Captain Peter Jourdan of New Meadows ; and his whole pile, of 
many cords, was burnt soon after. 



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About the same time, a ridiculous scare and stampede occurred on account of 
the small-pox. It is best described in the following extract from a letter of J. W. 
Emery's to the Secretary : " There were two or three cases in town. The term 
lacked a little more than two weeks of being out. I wanted to attend the exami- 
nation at North Parsonsfield, where I would be sure to meet several lasses on 
whom I was sweet. Well, I asked Puffer if he would like to have vacation begin 
right away. ' Yes ; but how ?' I explained. He wrote out a call for a meeting, 
in the mathematical recitation room, immediately after the eleven o'clock recita- 
tion. In that meeting, I stated the object to be, to consider the propriety of 
getting into a panic about the small-pox, and securing a long vacation. It didn't 
seem to take. The meeting broke up without action. It was talked of at din- 
ner. Morrison, a Freshman, went to his room, packed his trunk, and was off in 
a real fright. That afternoon, Puffer, King. Page, and myself made application 
for leave of absence, and got it. Two days after, wasn't you a class yourself? 
or did Eph stay with you } My recollection is, that only the Senior Class had 
an examination." 



SUMMER TERM. 

[Course of Study. — Electra of Sophocles, Cicero De Officiis, Cambridge 
Mathematics (Projection, Leveling), Smyth's Application of Algebra to Geom- 
etry, French Language (Saintine's Picciola and Moliere), Review of the Studies of 
the Year. 

1851. June 6 (Friday). Term commenced. 

June 23 (Monday). Peucinian anniversary. 

June 24 (Tuesday). Athenaean anniversary. 

June 25 (Wednesday). Simonton chosen second librarian of 
the Peucinian Society, and Page second editor. 

June 26 (Thursday). Downes chosen second librarian of 
the Athensean Society, and Fuller second editor ; but, he 
declining, Southgate, two days later, was elected in his 
place. 

August 5 (Tuesday). E. C Cummings, M. Emery, Pond, and 
Webb having been appointed by Professor Goodwin as his 
assistants in the college library for the coming year, and his 
choice having created some litde ill-feeling in the Class, a 
mock serenade was given him ; after which the same delicate 
compliment was bestowed upon the professor of rhetoric, 
who also had the seats of his recitation-room smeared with 
oil. For this offence one member of the Class was singled 
out as the scapegoat, was, on the 12th of the month, 
" directed to leave town," and was subsequently sus- 
pended. 



Class of 1853. 13 

185 1. August 25 (Monday). Prize declamation of the Junior 
Class. 

August 26 (Tuesday). Prize declamation of the Sophomore 
Class. The performers were Adams, Carruthers, E. C._ 
Cummings, J. W. Emery, Fuller, McKeen, Page, Puffer, 
Simonton, Southgate, Spaulding, and Wheeler. The prize 
was equally divided between Fuller and Southgate. 

August 28 (Thursday). Examination and Sophomore Supper. 
See note, below. 

September 3 (Wednesday). Commencement day. Term 
closed, and was followed by a vacation of three weeks. 

Note. — Commons Hall was opened by the government at the commence- 
ment of the term. Board was charged in the term-bills. 

Drew was absent during this term, having visited England with his father, 
who was a commissioner from the State of Maine to the World's Fair, in 
London. 

At the Class Supper, the " exercises " consisted of a supper, and nothing 
more. There were no odes, and no oration or poem. At the class election 
(in the spring), Fuller had been a candidate for orator. The two parties, or 
secret society leagues, in the Class being equally balanced, the opposition, to beat 
him, put up Foss, a neutral, who was found to have a majority of one. Content 
with their victory, they had no difficulty in persuading the not unamiable Doctor 
to rest satisfied with his ; and so the supper passed off without the usual 
literary accompaniments. 



Junior Year. 
1851-52. 



FALL TERM, 



[Course of Study. — Satires of Juvenal, German (Ollendorff's Grammar. 
Adler's Dictionary and Reader), Mechanics.] 

1851. September 24 (Wednesday). Term commenced. 

November 25 (Tuesday). Public exhibition of the Senior 

and Junior Classes. E. C. Cummings, Fuller, Puffer, and 

Webb had parts. 
December 17 (Wednesday). Examination. 
December 19 (Friday). Term ended, followed by a vacation 

of eight weeks. 

Note. — At the beginning of this year the Class consisted of twenty-five mem- 
bers ; as follows, Adams, Carruthers, Crosby, Cummings, Downes, Drew, Drum- 
mond, Emery (ist), Emery (2d), Foss, Fuller, Goodenow, Kimball, Langdon, Mc- 
Keen, Page, Place, Pond, Puffer, Simonton, Southgate, Spaulding, Todd, Webb, 
Wheeler. For the first time, the catalogue contained the names of none who 
were not actually resident members of the Class. 

Jotham B. Sewall succeeded Egbsrt C. Smyth as Tutor. 

Some time during the term the blackboards of the mathematical recitation- 
room were thoroughly besmeared with plaster ; so that they were quite unusable 
for several days. 

Adams was teacher, through the autumn, of the Brunswick High School ; J. 
W. Emery was absent in Solon ; and Kimball was also out of town (involun- 
tarily) for several weeks. 

In the vacation, Adams taught school in Brunswick village (the high school) ; 
E. C. Cummings, in Brewer ; J. W. Emery, in Bridgton ; Foss, in Bowdoinham 
(or Gardiner, or Harpswell Neck ; does not remember which) ; Langdon, in 
Loudon, New Hampshire ; Place, in Hartford, New Hampshire; Pond, in 
Rowley, Massachusetts ; Puffer, in Freeport ; Simonton, in Rockland ; South- 
gate, in Amherst, Maine ; Spaulding, in Rockport ; Webb, in Robbinston ; 
Wheeler, in Brunswick (at Bungonock). 
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Class ai 1853, ik 



SPRING TERM. 

« 

[Course of Siudy, — Calculus, Electricity, Magnetism, Optics, German 
{Schiller's History of the Thirty- Years' War), Tacitus (History, Book i. Agri- 
cola, and Germania), Spanish Language (Seoane's Neuman and Barretti's Dic- 
tionary, Ollendorff's Grammar, and Novelas EspaKolas),] 

1852. February 13 (Friday). Term commenced. 

March 5 (Friday). Athenaean initiation. 

March 22 (Monday). A petition from the whole body of 
students, on the subject of bad wood, was laid before the 
Faculty, by whom the Treasurer was informed of the cir- 
cumstance, and was requested to provide against a recur- 
rence. 

March 21-27. During this week the "back building" 
(euphemistically so described in the records of the F'aculty) 
was entirely destroyed by the fire, work of an incendiary. 

April 10 (Saturday). Crosby regularly dismissed. 

April 14 (Wednesday), the day before Fast. Doors of the 
Congregationalist Church whitewashed, and violence done 
to two citizens of the town, who, at the request of the Presi- 
dent, interfered to prevent further mischief. 

May II (Tuesday). Peucinian anniversar}^ 

May 18 (Tuesday), Public exhibition of the Senior and 
Junior Classes. Adams, Drew, M. Emery, Southgate, and 
Spaulding had parts assigned them. 

May 19 (Wednesday). Examination. 

May 21 (Friday). Terra ended, followed by a vacation of 
two weeks. 

Note. — Langdon was absent during this term ; and so was Kimball, with 
the exception of the interval between March 20 (or thereabouts) and May 19. 
Some time during the term, a box was received at the railroad freight-office, 
directed to the President and Faculty of Bowdoin College. On being opened, 
it was found to contain a bell and a note, purporting to be from the President 
and Faculty of Waterville College, proposing an exchange. After having been 
securely nailed up again, the box was taken to the station to be sent back to 
Watei'ville ; but the same night it disappeared from the freight-house, and no 
trace of it could be discovered. (For the sequel see A^ote under Smnmei' Term.) 

A witty "false order" of exercises (mainly the production of the late William 
Law Symonds) was circulated in college on the 18th of May, the day of the 
exhibition of the Senior and Junior Classes. The Secretary has a copy. 



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SUMMER TERM. 

[Course of Study, — Calculus, German (Goethe's Iphigenia), Moral Philoso- 
phy, Vattel's Law of Nations, Wayland's Moral Science, Spanish Language, 
Lectures on German Metaphysics by Professor Goodwin, Review of the Studies 
of the Year.] 

1852. June 4 (Friday). Term commenced. 

June 18 (Friday). Athenaean initiation. 

June 23 (Wednesday), Webb chosen President of the Peu- 
cinian Society ; Crosby (and, subsequently, Simonton), 
Vice-President ; Cummings, Orator and First Editor; Page, 
Poet ; Adams, First Librarian, and first on the Standing 
Committee ; Place, First Cabinet-Keeper. 

June 24 (Thursday). Fuller chosen President of the Athe- 
naean Society ; Kimball, Vice-President ; Spaulding, Orator ; 
Southgate, Poet ; M. Emery, Chairman of the Standing 
Committee ; Downes, First Librarian ; Drew, First Editor. 

July 9 (Friday). Fuller, President elect of the Athenaean, 
delivered whac .the record styles " a very able and praise- 
worthy address " before the society. Emery moved the ap- 
pointment of a committee to take into consideration the 
question of securing additional accommodations for the 
library ; and Emery, Wheeler, and Downes were appointed. 

July 12 (Monday). At a meeting of the Athenaean Society, 
the report of the committee on procuring additional room 
for the library was read and accepted, and the committee 

. was discharged. A committee was chosen to revise the 
constitution of the society, of which Wheeler was chairman, 

July 17 (Saturday). Granite Club (Democratic) formed. 
The meeting was called to order by Fuller, and was tem- 
porarily organized by the choice of Page as President, and 
Harrison Gray as Secretary. Fuller, Eastman, and Eaton 
were appointed a Committee on. Permanent Organization, 
and nominated, as President, K. F. Page of Rochester, New 
Hampshire ; Vice-Presidents, M. Emery of Frankfort, Ful- 
ler of Augusta, Kimball of Farmingdale, Simonton of Cam- 
den, Wheeler of Topsham, and John F. Spaulding of 
Camden ; Corresponding Secretaries, Harrison Gray and 
J. R. Osgood ; Recording Secretaries, J. E. Smith, C. W. 
Smyth ; 'J'reasurer, Council Greeley ; Standing Committee 



(iTIass of 1853. 17 

and Committee on Constitution, Emery, Wilson, and 
Eaton ; Committee on Resolutions, Spaulding, Farrington, 
and Henderson. Spirited remarks were made by Fuller, 
Emery, Spaulding, and others. 

August 24 (Tuesday). Examination, Junior Supper, and 
Burial of Calculus. At the Supper an oration was de- 
livered by Cummings, and a poem by Southgate. The 
Class then adjourned to the chapel, where a eulogy upon 
Calculus was pronounced by Drew, and an elegy was read 
by Wheeler ; after which other funeral rites were celebrated. 
Downes (in Page's night-shirt) officiated as chaplain, and 
convulsed the house by reading alternately the verses of 
the first chapter of Matthew and some mournful selections 
from Ecclesiastes. 

August 30 (Monday). Prize declamation of the Sophomore 
Clafss. 

September i (Wednesday). Semi-centennial Commence- 
ment. In the evening a public oration was delivered 
before a convention of the A. K. E. Fraternity. 

September 2 (Thursday). Prize declamation of the Junior 
Class. The performers were Adams, Carruthers, E. C. 
Cummings, Drew, Emery (ist), Emery (2d), Fuller, Page, 
Puffer, Simonton, Southgate, Spaulding, Webb, and Wheeler. 
The first prize was awarded to Fuller, the second prize to 
Drew. End of term, followed by a vacation of three weeks. 



Note. — Langdonwas a,bsent during this term, engaged in teaching in Ando- 
ver (New Hampshire) Academy. Drummond was also absent for the greater 
portion of the term, in Gardiner, pursuing his studies. 

While wandering in the woods near the colleges, Professor Upham discovered 
the box in which the Waterville bell had been sent to the President and Faculty 
of Bowdoin. He had it carried to the railway station, but, before forwarding it, 
thought it best to examine the contents, and, on doing so, found the interior 
to be filled with stones. Later in the term, — word having been sent from Water- 
ville that the Faculty there were on the track of those who had purloined the bell, 
and that serious trouble would ensue if it should not be returned, — it was at night 
removed from its hiding-place under the bricks in the cellar of Maine Hall, 
carried through the streets of Brunswick to test the quality of its tones, and then 
left at the railway station. It had been intended to send it to Harvard ; but the 
detection of the students implicated at Waterville changed the plan. 

At about the same time that the Granite Club was organized, a Scott and 
Graham Club was formed, of which Drew was president. A series of resolu- 
tions adopted at the first meeting may be found in "The Portland Advertiser " 
of June 21. There was also a Free-soil Club; but it is believed that no member 



jS iSobjli ai It Col Ufle. 

of the Class belonged to it, except Puffer. Meetings of all three of these clubs 
were held regularly every Saturday afternoon ; and *' an eternal talk on party 
principles " (so Southgate wrote to his brother, under date of August 8) was 
kept up through the week. On the 23d of September a grand mass meeting of 
the Democracy was held at Augusta, under the auspices of the Granite Club. 
The Granite Club, at least, had a reading-room, many Democratic papers being 
sent to it gratuitously. 

The interior painting and decoration of the chapel was in progress during 
this term, and the work was vigorously prosecuted with a view to its comple- 
tion before Commencement Day. One of the German artists employed made a 
painting for the Athenaean Library, and also one for the Peucinian Library. 

Southgate was laid up for nearly the whole term with a badly sprained ankle. 
On the 7th of August (as it appears from a letter to his brother), he went down 
town for the first time since the first day of the term. 

A literary festival took place at Yarmouth Academy on the 17th of August, 
which was attended by quite a number of the Class. The oration was by 
Llewellyn Deane, and the poem by Daniel L. Eaton. 

The Class " cut " Professor Smyth one morning. Adams, being recalcitrant, was 
fastened into his room, but managed, though with great difficulty, to get out, 
and went late to recitation. Who of us to-day does not honor him for doing so ? 

At the end of the term, Adams gave up the charge of the chapel bell. 



Senior Year 
1852-53. 



FALL TERM, 



[Course of Study. — Olmstead's Astronomy, Paley's Evidences, UphamV 
Mental Philosophy.] 

1852. September 22 (Wednesday). Term commenced. 

November 12 (Friday). Eulogy by Professor Hitchcock on 
Daniel Webster. 

November 23 (Tuesday). Public exhibition of the Senior 
and Junior Classes. Puffer, Adams, Pond, Todd, Drew, 
Goodenow, E. C. Cummings, Simonton, and Southgate had 
parts. 

December 15 (Wednesday). Examination. 

December 17 (Friday). Term ended, followed by an eight- 
weeks' vacation. 

Note. — Drummond, Kimball, Langdon, and McArthur rejoined the Class. 
Barton, a Waterville student, having passed a satisfactory examination (on the 
3d of September), entered the Class. He was a member of the A. K. E. Society 
in that institution, and had completed his Junior Year. McLellan's name appears 
on the catalogue as belonging to the Class ; but he was at no time, in reality, a 
member of it. It was actually composed as follows : Adams, Barton, Carru- 
thers, E. C. Cummings, Downes, Drew, Drummond, Emery (ist), Emery (2d), 
Foss, Fuller, Goodenow, Kimball, Langdon,- McArthur, McKeen, Page, Place, 
Pond, Puffer, Simonton, Southgate, Spaulding, Todd, Webb, Wheeler, — twenty- 
six in all. Foss is put down in the catalogue — by way of joke, doubtless — as 
a resident of Little Rock, Arkansas. Another notable inaccuracy is found in 
the fact that Barton is registered as occupying room 28 A. H., together with three 
other persons, — Warren Johnson, Alexander, and Phillips, — all of the Junior 



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Class. At the end of the term, Barton left college, and, on account of ill health, 
did not return. 

Professor Hitchcock succeeded Professor Stowe in the Chair of Natural and 
Revealed Religion ; and Samuel J. Pike took the place of Jotham B. Sewall as 
Tutor. 

Downes joined the i'. T. Society early in the term. 

Daniel Webster died on the 24th of October ; and Professor Hitchcock was 
invited by the students to deliver a eulogy on his life and services, which he did 
on the 1 2th of November, as is stated above. By request of the students he 
attended the funeral at Marshfield, together with Fuller as their representative. 

On the occasion of the Senior and Junior Exhibition, November 23, a " false 
order of exercises " was circulated in college. A copy is in the possession of 
the Secretary. 

J. W. Emery and Spaulding were absent from college, teaching (the former, 
in Solon, and the latter in Raymond), coming back, however, to review the 
studies of the term, and be examined with the Class. M. Emery was also 
absent. Adams taught the Brunswick High School during the fall and winter. 
In the vacation, J. W. Emery kept school at Solon again ; M. Emery, at Union ; 
Goodenow, at Kennebunk ; Place, at Hartford, New Hampshire ; Pond, at 
Georgetown, Massachusetts ; Puffer, at Freeport ; Simonton, at Camden ; 
Spaulding, at Belgrade Mills (private classes) ; and Webb, at Frankfort. Foss 
is uncertain whether he taught at Gardiner, at Bowdoinham, or at Harpswell 
Neck. 



SPRING TERM. 

[Course of Study. — Chemistry, Butler's Analogy, Mental Philosophy 
(continued), Italian Language.] 

1853. February ii (Friday). Term began. 

March 4 (Friday). Athenaean initiation. The records say 
that " the society was favored with a very interesting 
paper from Brother Drew," and that the President (Fuller) 
•' addressed the society in an able, eloquent, and impres- 
sive manner." 

April 26 (Tuesday). The Athenaean Society celebrated its 
forty-fourth anniversary. Oration by Spaulding. 

May 7 (Saturday). May training. See below . 

May 17 (Tuesday). Public exhibition of the Senior and 
Junior Classes. Parts were assigned to Fuller, Carruthers, 
Drummond, M. Emery, J. W. Emery, McKeen^ Page, 
Place, Spaulding, and Webb. 

May 18 (Wednesday). Examination. 

May 20 (Friday). Term ended, followed by a two-weeks' 
vacation. ♦ 



Class of 1853. 21 

Note. — Puffer taught during this term in Topsham Academy. Southgate 
was absent the greater part of the term, having been prostrated by a severe fit 
of sickness. He was to have delivered the poem before the Athenaean Society, 
at its anniversary in April, and, could he have done so, the production would 
unquestionably have been reckoned far above the average of college perform- 
ances. He had written some portions of it during the winter vacation, but 
deferred its completion until his return to Brunswick, and was finally obliged to 
leave it unfinished. 

At the May training, Fuller served as chaplain, — vice Downes, who declined, 
— and spoke with effusion from a barrel in front of the chapel. 



SUMMER TERM. 

[Course of Study. — Natural History, Cleaveland's Mineralogy, Geology, 
Upham's Treatise on the Will, Italian (continued), Review of the Studies of the 
Year.] 

1853. June 3 (Friday). Term began. 

June — (?) Peucinian anniversary. • Oration by Cummings. 

. June 17 (Friday). The Peucinian Society "listened to an 

interesting address by Vice-President Simon ton. A farewell 

paper of unusual interest was read by Cummings, first 

editor." 

July ii (Monday). The Faculty passed a vote, "that two 
hundred dollars for music be charged to the Class which is 
to graduate ; this sum being specified on account of the 
extravagant arrangements made by recent classes, and 
contemplated, as is understood, by the present Class." 

August 2 (Tuesday). Examination, and Senior Supper. 

August 28 (Sunday). Drummond died. 

August 29 (Monday). Prize declamation of the Junior 
Class. 

September 5 (Monday). Sophomore prize declamation. 

September 6 (Tuesday). Oration before the united Peucin- 
ian and Athenaean Societies. 

September 7 (Wednesday). Commencement, and end of the 
curriculum. 

Note. — The first prize for English composition was awarded, in August, to 
Cummings ; the second prize, to Southgate. 

At the Class Supper there was neither oration nor poem. It had been decided 



22 i3oijjlJoinColUc[e. 

in the spring to initiate the observance of a special Class Day, as at Harvard ; and 
Drew had been chosen orator, and Wheeler poet ; but, a strong opposition to the 
plan on the part of some members of the Class having not long afterwards been 
developed, it was abandoned. A few years later, however, another class revived 
and carried out the project ; and the day has ever since been one of the recog- 
nized " institutions " of the college. When the supper came off, Fuller was 
elected Class Secretary, and two votes were passed : first, to hold a decennial 
meeting in 1863 ; and, secondly, to present a silver cup to the first legitimate child 
born to any member of the Class. 

On the evening of Commencement Day a concert was given by Dodworth's 
Band, after which the usual Commencement Ball came off at the Tontine Hotel ; 
Kimball being one of the Committee of Arrangements, and also one of the Floor 
Managers. The same evening. President Woods held his usual reception in 
honor of the Graduating Class. 

Crosby and Tucker, both non-graduates, were present at the exercises of 
Commencement week. 

At the meeting of the 4>.B. K. Society, on Thursday, September 8, Southgate, 
Webb, Spaulding, E. C. Cummings, Puffer, Fuller, Drew, and Adams, were 
elected members. See part III, table VIII. 

When Friday came, we were all scattered, nevermore all to come together 
again in this world. 



POST-GRADUATION MEETINGS. 



Informal meetings of such members of the Class as happened to be in Bruns- 
wick at Commencement time were held at various dates during the decennium 
between 1853 ^^^ 1863. In 1856, eighteen of the Class took the Master's degree, 
and eight of them [namely^ Carruthers, E. C. Cummings, J. W. Emery, Kim- 
ball, McKeen, Simonton, Southgate, and Webb) were present to receive their 
diplomas. On this occasion, Southgate delivered the Master's oration, and Webb 
was Valedictorian. 

1863. 

At the Senior Supper, celebrated in Commons Hall, Tuesday 
evening, August 2, 1853, it was voted to hold a decennial meeting 
in 1863 \ and Fuller was chosen Class Secretary, to make the neces- 
sary arrangements. It was also voted to give a silver cup to the first 
child born (in lawful wedlock) to any member of the Class. 

In consequence of the failure of the Secretary to give due notice 
of the adjourned meeting, in 1863, a smaller number got together 
than might otherwise have been the case. An informal meeting was 
held in the Senior recitation-room on Commencement Day, August 5 ; 
Adams, Drew, Fuller, Goodenow, McKeen, Webb, and Wheeler 
being present. The only business transacted was the choice of 
Goodenow as Class Secretary, in the room of Fuller, who declined to 
serve any longer. A verbal statement was made by Drew, to the 
effect that he had procured a silver cup, caused it to be suitably 
inscribed, and presented it, on behalf of the subscribers and of the 
Class, to Miss Ellen Julia Klmball, the " Class Baby." He also 
proposed some resolutions commemorative of her father, whose recent 
and untimely death gave a marked tinge of sadness to the occasion. 
After exchanging experiences and good wishes, adjourned to meet 
again in 1865. 

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24 Bofajliofn College* 

1865. 

Pursuant to the call of the Secretary, the following members of 
the Class met at the Tontine Hotel on Wednesday evening, August 
2, 1865, — Crosby, Cummings (ist), Fuller, Goodenow, McKeen, 
SiMONTON, Webb, Wheeler. 

Supper was served in the large dancing-hall ; and ample justice 
was done to a good bill of fare. This duty having been attended 
to, each member present gave an off-hand account of his history 
since graduation. Statements respecting absent brothers, affection- 
ate tributes to our dead, varied reminiscences of college life and 
events, and an extraordinary flow of wit and anecdote, so beguiled 
the time that remained, that the motto appended to the order of 
exercises for our Junior Supper came true ; and we were surprised to 
find that our festivities had been literally a — 

^^•eftlic^ l)o'i)tt ®riiB bent DJiorcien jucjcbractt." 

The sun was rising, when, after having taken each other by the 
hand, and joined in singing " Auld Lang Syne," we finally said 
"good-by" until 1868. 



1868. 

In response to the call of the Secretary, eight members of the 
Class met at the Tontine Hotel, Wednesday evening, July 8 ; viz., 
Adams, Crosby, Downes, Goodenow, McKeen, Todd, Webb, 
Wheeler. 

Letters were read from Cummings (ist), Cummings (2d), Drew, 
Emery (ist), Foss, Langdon, McArthur, Place, Simonton, 
Spaulding, and Upham, expressing their regret at not being able to 
attend the meeting, and conveying their kind salutations to those 
who might be present, as well as their cordial good wishes for a 
happy re-union. 

Goodenow, declining to act longer as secretary, nominated Wheeler 
as his successor, who was elected fiem. con. 

The earlier part of the evening was spent in social converse at 
the supper table. Each classmate present then gave an account of 



Class of 1853. 25 

himself for the five years that had elapsed since our previous meet- 
ing. We spoke affectionately of Drummond, of Puffer, of South- 
gate, and of Kimball They had all entered into the cloud. We 
spoke also of our absent brothers, of our wives and children, of our 
occupations and opportunities and efforts and hopes. With the lapse 
of fifteen years, a graver mood seemed to be coming upon the most 
of us ; yet we were able to show that lively blood still flowed in our 
veins, and that neither new social ties nor the trammels of business 
were strong enough to keep us from gladly turning back to seek the 
friends, and revive the memories, of our college days. 

At a late hour we all joined hands, sang a parting song, and 
separated, agreeing to meet again in 1873, with our wives, if possible. 



1873. 

In accordance with the vote passed at the meeting of the Class 
in 1868, the Secretary, early in June, 1873, sent a circular to each of 
the twenty-six living members, graduate and non-graduate, reminding 
him that the vicennial anniversary would be celebrated by a social 
re-union at Brunswick during the approaching Commencement week, 
and earnestly inviting him to be present upon that occasion, with his 
wife, if he was fortunate enough to have one. Although we are so 
widely scattered, — all the way from New Brunswick to Texas and 
Minnesota, — the evening of the 9th of July found thirteen class- 
mates and nine ladies assembled in the not too capacious parlor of 
the Tontine. The hour of meeting had been fixed at nine o'clock, 
but was afterwards postponed until half-past nine, to give those 
who wished to attend the President's reception an opportunity to 
do so. 

There were present Adams and Mrs, Adams^ Crosby and 
Mrs. Crosby^ E. C. Cummings, Drew, M. Emery, Fuller and 
Mrs. Fuller^ Goodenow and Mrs. Goodejtoiv, Langdon and Mrs, 
Langdon, McKeen and Mrs. McKeen, Place, Simonton and 
Mrs. Simonto?i., Spaulding, Wheeler and Mrs. Wheeler^ and Miss 
Nellie J. Kimball. 

After a half-hour spent in social intercourse, supper was served in 

the adjoining dining-hall, the Secretary occupying the head of the 

table, with Miss Kimball at his right, the members of the Class being 

seated in alphabetical order on either side, each lady by her husband. 

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26 BobtJoin GolUge, 

The divine blessing was asked by Spaulding^ after which an hour or 
more was devoted to the " works of the flesh." The Secretary then 
called the company to order, and made the following address, which 
is printed " by special request : " — 

From the early autumn of 1849 to the present time, it has been my misfortune 
on all occasions, and in more senses than one, to bring up the rear of the Class ; 
and there is an old proverbial imprecation (unsavory enough in my nostrils) 
which devotes "the hindmost man " to a very lamentable fate. But to-night it 
so happens that in me is fulfilled that more acceptable saying, that "the last shall 
be first ;" for, the Class having no regular officers except the Secretary, it has fallen 
to my lot not only to notify this meeting, but to act also as a committee of 
arrangements, and as master of ceremonies. And so I take it to be proper, and 
probably expected, that I should follow the example set me, five years ago, by my 
predecessor, and make a few preliminary remarks. 

I esteem it a great privilege, classmates and friends, as well as a great pleasure, 
to give you greeting upon this pleasant anniversary, — an anniversary which surely 
it is a kind Providence permits us to celebrate. But there is no reason, my 
brothers, why /should extend any formal or official welcome to you. This is not 
a reception, but a re-union. It is your occasion, as well as m'ine ; and your faces, 
radiant as they are with the warmth and gladness of your hearts, the cordiality 
and kindliness of your manner and words and tones, are a welcome from each to 
all, and from all to each, far more appropriate and more eloquent than any poor 
utterance of mine could be. 

I am sure, however, that I shall not only do a fitting thing, but shall act in 
accordance with your wishes, as well as my own inclination, by making haste to 
thank the ladies present for the honor they have done us in coming here to-night, 
and to assure them of our respectful and fraternal regard. I might go on in praise 
of them, and tell them how much we all owe them, and still keep within the 
bounds of truth. But I would not even seem to use the language of flattery ; 
and, besides, I am afraid, that, if I were to say no more than even strict truth 
would allow, they might possibly be, as Pet Marjorie has it, " puffed up with 
majestic pride." I am not prepared to face any such contingency, or to be held 
answerable for any such result, as that. And, moreover, I trust that each one of 
us can truly echo what Mr. Bounderby said about his young wife to the guests at 
the breakfast table, after the marriage ceremony had been performed. " I have 
watched her bringing-up," he said, " and I believe she is worthy — of me. At the 
same time (not to deceive you), I believe that I — am worthy of her." At all 
events, let us join in the wish that he gave the unmarried portion of the com- 
pany, which was this, " I hope every bachelor may find as good a wife as I have 
found. And I, hope every spinster may find as good a husband as my wife has 
found." 

And now I turn to the discharge of another most agreeable duty. I have the 
hon )r and the pleasure to present to you the young lady at my right hand, Miss 
Ellkn Julia Kimball, the "Class Baby," — yes, though in the very prime and 
bu Iding-forth of young womanhood, now and always the "Class Baby." And I 
take leave to say to her, in your name, that we each and all esteem it a fortunate 
circumstance indeed that we have her with us this evening. 



'^ Class of 1853. 27 

But ah ! my friends, what a visible, palpable, substantial reminder she is of the 
rapid flight of time ! Can it be, is it in any wise possible, that we are really 
getting to be such old fellows ? I am much afraid it is even so. Why, it was 
only a itw months ago, at the Boston Public Library, that one of the little runners 
came to me, and said that " an old gentleman," who sent in no card, and gave no 
name, would like to see me. I told him to show the gentleman to my room. 
Presently he re-appeared, bringino- with him a venerable being, about whom I was 
at first equally in doubt whether it were Rip Van Winkle or Father Time or the 
Wandering Jew. 

" His snowy beard, descending, swept his breast ;" 

there was no hair on that part of his head where the hair always ought to grow ; 
and his whole appearance was ancient and patriarchal in the extreme. But when he 
opened his lips and spake, the tones of his voice, his bland, if not childlike smile, 
and a certain j'e ne sais qttoi in his manner, brought back the days of my lost youth, 
and the veritable " Pater Teucer " of our Freshman Year stood confessed before 
me. Then, again, I cannot look at our good brother from Chicago without being 
reminded — shall I say it t — of the ghost of Hamlet's father ; for his hair, which 
once clustered around his poetic brow* in " hyacinthine locks" (or something 
very much like them), is now, like the beard of that respectable but very unfor- 
tunate old gentleman, most emphatically "a sable silvered," — a sable, though, in 
the furrier's, not the herald's, sense of the word. And I must confess, that 
I myself, for a like reason, find it most agreeable to my own feelings not to 
look into the glass any oftener than it is absolutely necessary. At no time have I 
been very much in the habit of consulting it ; but I found myself doing so less 
than ever, — 

" Candidior postquam tondenti barba cadebat." 

What need to speak of Crosby, the youngest — no, almost the youngest — boy 
in the Class, with his bounding grace, like that of an Antinous .'* Behold him 
now, the father of a family, a sober, steady-going man, in middle life. Alas ! the 
crows'-feet are beginning to gather around the outer corners of his eyes ; his 
*' bonny brow is brent" no longer ; and never again can we lay our hand on our 
heart, and affirm, as we used to do, that — 

" Eternal sunshine settles on his head.' ' 

My friends, these are stubborn facts ; but I think you will allow that I have 
looked them fairly in the face. If they were the only facts we looked at, I sadly 
fear there would be no escape from the admission that we are growing old. But, 
on the other hand, here at my left is a remarkably well-preserved friend [Adams], 
on whose head the wintry skies of more than half a century have shed no frost, 
but only what Milton calls " selectest influence." And near him sits one who 
ought, by good rights, to be a most venerable graybeard ; but the srnooth and 
damask cheeks of our dear Eph still remind me — and long may they do so ! — 
of Professor Cleaveland's unusually poetical statement, that "it is to the peroxide 
of iron that we owe the glow of health and the blush of youth and beauty." 

Seriously, however, the stream that has borne us onward to the present time 
has been both swift and strong ; and, moreover, the score of yeai's that has 
elapsed since we went put from the college walls is no inconsiderable segment 

* See his portrait (the earlier one), which bears a haunting resemblance to some noted poet. Is 
it Shelley, or Keats, or— "quis fuit alter?" 



28 Bobilioin College. 

of human life : it is nearly a third of what the Good Book tells us is our allotted 
term : it is just a quarter part of what, in the vast majority of cases, is the 
extreme limit. But I cannot doubt, that, to all of us, these twenty years have 
been fruitful of rich results, as well as crowned with manifold blessings. Of one 
thing, at least, I am sure, — that time has gradually been placing us all on the 
same general level of experience of men and things. 

In college the case was notably different. There we stood by no means upon 
one and the same footing in this regard ; nor did we in other respects. From 
lower planes of observation, and out of unpurged eyes, we saw a narrower land- 
scape. To say nothing of natural differences of capacity and temperament and 
disposition, of preparatory training and social surroundings and early advan- 
tages in general, the disparity in years alone was quite considerable. Our ages, 
on entering, — now nearly a quarter of a century ago, — varied from fifteen to 
twenty-eight. Think of how much is implied in that simple statement ! 

Naturally, the older members of the Class, and all of the sober-minded, Indus- 
trious, ambitious, sensible members, made faithful use of their opportunities for 
gaining an education : and not only so, but theirs was " a pure, unstained prime ; " 

for they — 

" Passed by the ambush of young days, 
Either not assailed, or victor being charged." 

Would that it had been so with all of us ! But there were some of our number 
— some few of our number — who were at that critical period of life when the 
passions not only rage most tumultuously, but conscience too often speaks most 
feebly. Mere boys we were, with good impulses and good hearts, it is true, but 
with unformed characters, careless of the future, bent only on present enjoyment, 
and rather proud, than otherwise, of sowing the greatest possible quantity of wild 
oats. Such of us had to learn wisdom by the stern discipline to which Folly, 
sooner or later, always subjects those who rashly seek her acquaintance. But I 
am glad to believe that we all learned it at last ; glad to think that the undercur- 
rent of goodness in us came to the surface at length, to fertilize and bless our 
later life. And certainly, if Coleridge is right, there is no small consolation and 
compensation in being able to reflect, that — 

"The strongest plume in Wisdom's pinion 
Is the memory of past folly." 

And now, dear classmates, as we come back once more to these familiar 
scenes, are we not all of us sensible, that, with increased years, we have come to 
entertain an increased regard and respect for each other, — a regard and respect 
springing from, or justified by, a knowledge or a faith that each of us, in his own 
station, is honestly trying to act well his part in life, to " do justly, and to love 
mercy, and to walk humbly with his God " .-* 

I ought not to detain you any longer ; but I feel that it would be unpardonable 
in me, if I failed to remind you, that, at our last meeting, our dear Webb was with 
us, and that to-night we shall look for him in vain. I shall undertake to pro- 
nounce no eulogy upon him. Although for four years I sat next to him in the 
recitation-room, circumstances threw me less into his society than into that of 
others ; and I therefore leave it to some of those who knew him more intimately 
than it was my privilege to do, to bear testimony to his rare worth as a man, and 
his solid if not brilliant qualities and attainments as a scholar. 



(Zriass of 1853» 29 

Nor must I speak, though I would gladly do so, of the others who have gone 
from us for ever, — of Drummond, so early taken, so universally beloved, so 
lamented by all, yet not dying — 

" Without the meed of some melodious tear," 

for Southgate bewailed his loss in lines so strong and sweet and tender, that any 
poet, even the greatest, might be proud to call them his own ; or of Puffer, — poor 
Puffer ! — like Drummond, " dead ere his prime," cut off at the very beginning of 
a career that was so full of promise ; or of Kimball {felix opporhmitate mortis), 
whose genuine goodness of heart, and whose native strength and acuteness of 
intellect (latent and unsuspected, it is true, but none the less real) I, doubtless, 
had a better chance of becoming acquainted with, and (looking back on them at 
this distance of time with clearer vision) can more correctly estimate, than any one 
else ; or, lastly, of Southgate, the foremost man, perhaps, among us, whom we all 
loved, and all honored, and all admired, and none of us envied, — our Adonais, 

who has become — 

"A portion of the loveliness 
Which once he made more lovely." 

These, and others whom I have not referred to, will by and by, I hope, receive 
from some of those present the tribute of affection and respect which is certainly 
their due. 

But let me not dwell on mournful memories, or end with words of sadness. 
The occasion is one that invites to joy. And we may be sure, — may we not .-' — 
that, if departed friends ever do revisit the " glimpses of the moon," these dear 
companions of our younger days are with us to-night, sharing in our happiness, 
rejoicing in our prosperity, and strengthening us with the inspiration that comes 
from the recollection of what in them was manliest and best and most worthy of 
imitation. 

Such a meeting as this is a rare experience in any one's life. Let us make the 
most of it ; for it is only now and then that the world and its cares relax their 
hold upon us. To-morrow they will re-assert their power ; but to-night, at least, 
let us " eat, drink, and be merry," not in any fatalistic or irreligious sense, but in 
that spirit in which Milton reminds us, stern moralist though he was, that — 

" For other things mild Heaven a time ordains, 

And disapproves that care, though wise in show, 
That with superfluous burden loads the day, 
And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains " 

The Class then sang, to the tune of " Henley/' the following song 
by Fuller : — 

How long, how brief, the years ! It is but twenty, 

Since from these halls we pressed with joyous mien. 
Seeking the lands ruddy with harvests plenty, 

As Hope displayed them, clad in glorious sheen. 
What dreams have vanished as the sun ascended ! 

What hopes have withered in the noontide blaze ! 
What bitter disappointments have attended 

The keen ambitions of those early days ! 



30 BoiwlJDin College. 

Yet, though these fond illusions have departed, 

And glittering dreams and buoyant hopes have fled, 
Faith, courage, strength, remain to the true-hearted. 

To wage life's battle until life be sped. 
Sweet home, the loving wife, the children's laughter. 

Content, repose, — these guerdons have been won; 
And earnest trust, that, in the great hereafter, 

The Angel Scribe shall enter up, " Well done ! " 

When, at the summons of our Foster Mother, 

Around her board we gather here once more, 
We know the love of each surviving" brother 

Still burns as brightly as it did of yore. 
It is not time or space knit hearts can sever ; 

The ties that bound in youth in age remain ; 
That which we were we are, and are for ever, 

Though morning's care-free hours come not again. 

Many the voices hushed at the roll-calling. 

Whose tones in life were music to our ears ; 
Comrades upon the field of honor falling. 

Green lives each memory through the lapse of years. 
We feel their absence ; but the dear immortals 

We may believe in spirit with us yet. 
Sending remembrance from those golden portals, 

To pass within which is not to forget. 

Fill to the Past, its days so fair and fleeting. 

Its triumphs treasured, and its pains forgot ! 
Drink to the Present, with its gladsome greeting, 

And all the blessings showered upon our lot ! 
Health to the Future as it lies before us. 

As rich with promise as the Past has been ! 
Though twenty years are gone, we raise the chorus, 

Hail to new effort, nobler goals to win ! 

The Secretary, after remarking that he had with him a few senti- 
ments with which he purposed opening the bottled-up wit and wis- 
dom and jolHty of the Class, gave as the first of them, and as most 
appropriately so, " Our Alma Mater," which was responded to, in 
his usual felicitous manner, by Cummings. The next sentiment, 
^' The Class of '53," called up Goodenow, whose hearty and stirring 
remarks showed that the man had by no means been lost in the 
judge. Spaulding fittingly responded to a sentiment in honor of 
"Our Dead;" and Cummings added a few words, full of feeling and 
warm appreciation, in regard to Webb and Kimball. Simonton, 
having then been uncorked for the express purpose, gave us, apropos 



Class of 1853. 31 

to a sentiment in honor of " The Wives of our Classmates," an off- 
hand speech, effervescent with humor and fun. In natural sequence 
the next toast was, " Our Children, not forgetting special mention of 
our adopted child, the Class Baby." It being supposed that Fuller 
was better informed on this subject than any other man present, he 
was invited to tell us what he knew about it, which he kindly did 
in a way that was equally entertaining and instructive. Emery 
having been cited to show cause why " Our Bachelors " in general, 
and himself in particular, should not have summary sentence 
passed upon them, did the best thing he could under the circum- 
stances, — made a general confession of guilt, but pleaded extenu- 
ating circumstances, and requested a suspension of judgment until 
the next session of the court. Crosby responded for " The 
Non-graduate Members of the Class," in a somewhat discursive 
speech {^de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis), which, however, im- 
pressed us with a conviction, that, like Goldsmith, he touched up- 
on nothing that he did not adorn ; and which was a highly grati- 
fying vindication of the wisdom and penetration of the College 
Boards, who had that very day conferred upon him the honor- 
able degree of " Bachelor of Arts, out of course." To a sentiment 
in honor of " Our Ministers," Adams made an earnest and appro- 
priate response ; while one in relation to " The Medicine-Men of the 
Class " called up McKeen, who, though he did not reply directly to 
the toast, gave expression in some manly and suggestive remarks to 
the pleasure he felt in meeting so many of his old friends once more, 
and to the mingled feelings which such a meeting was calculated to 
excite. Fuller followed with a brief, bright speech called out by a 
complimentary reference to " The Lawyers of the Class." The 
next toast was thus introduced : — 



Although we have had, first and last, some three or four editors in the Class 
(not to speak of those of our college days), I think no one will deny, that, of 
them all, our good brother Emery is easily the first. I do not forget, that, when 
the war broke out, some of us recalled that glowing panegyric upon the elder 
Marcellus which Virgil puts into the mouth of Father Anchises, — 

** Hie rem Romanam, magna turbante tumuitu, 
Sistet," 

nor how much we regretted that he was not in more complete accord with the 
friends of the administration ; but neither do I forget that *' Her Majesty's 
Opposition " is an integrant and essential part of the established order of things 
in a free country. And, if we could not apply to him the words of the old Roman 



32 Boiulioi'n CoIIegr. 

poet, we certainly may those of a modern one ; for he answers — and no one 
better — to Shelley's description of a brave, outspoken man : — 

" Fearless he was. and scorning all disguise ; 

What he dared do or think, though men might stare, 
He spoke with . . . unaverted eyes." 

I invite Emery to respond to this sentiment, — " The Press : its usefulness is to 
be measured by its honesty and its independence, no less than by its ability and 
its enterprise." 

Emery, being obliged to leave for Bangor by the night train, 
excused himself from making any extended or formal reply at that 
time, but said that a misapprehension had existed as to his position 
during the war, and that he would take early occasion to make a 
suitable response through the columns of his newspaper. A toast 
to " The Business Men of the Class " was designed to call up Lang- 
don ; but it was only so far successful as to elicit a graceful apology 
for declining to speak. Place also modestly excused himself from 
responding to a toast commemorative of those who had served in 
"The Army." The Secretary, remarking that a good host always 
keeps his best wine till the last, then called upon Drew to give us 
any " Odds and Ends " he might have to spare ; and he, rising 
easily to the height of the occasion, made a spirited and sparkling 
speech, such as he knows so well — so much better than most men 
— how to make. 

The Class then sang, to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne," the fol- 
lowing song, adapted by the Secretary from some unpublished lines 
that had been written not long before by a near relative for a family 
gathering : — 

Again we meet, but soon must part, 

To meet, perhaps, no more 
Where hand grasps hand, and heart greets heart, 

Upon this earthly shore. 
We know not whether weal or woe 

Is left for us in store ; 
Enough it is for us to know 

Life's cup of joy runs o'er. 

Enough the happiness to share 

That beams in every eye, 
To call up visions bright and fair 

Of days long since gone by, 
When life was in its spring, and care 

Beclouded not our sky, 
And friends were living who can ne'er 

To love or memory die. 



Class of X853. 33 

The future we will leave to Him 

Whose power all worlds obey, 
Who keeps the glowing seraphim, 

And men of mortal clay. 
We will not doubt the love divine 

That guides our pilgrim way, 
That blessed the days of "auld lang syne," 

And blesses us to-day. 

The regular exercises of the evening being now concluded, the 
company resolved themselves into a committee of the whole ; and a 
general sociable ensued, interspersed with the singing of college and 
other songs. At the suggestion of the Secretary, Goodenow was 
chosen as his assistant or substitute. On motion of Fuller, the 
Secretary was authorized to call a meeting of the Class whenever he 
should deem it expedient to do so. 

At this stage of the proceedings, or soon after, some one made 
the discovery that it was three o'clock ; and, as the general opinion 
seemed to be that that was an hour when all honest folks ought to 
be in bed, an adjournment to nine o'clock, and to the Senior recita- 
tion-room, was moved, and carried without opposition. 

Thursday, July lo, 1873. The Class met pursuant to adjourn- 
ment. Present E. C. Cummings, Drew, Fuller, Goodenow, 
Langdon, Place, Stmonton, Spaulding, and Wheeler. Simon- 
ton was unanimously elected Chairman. An unwonted access of 
modesty and self-distrust thereupon suddenly overpowering him, he 
was assisted to the chair by Cummings and the Secretary, and, soon 
recovering his " native hue of resolution," discharged the duties of 
his office with great acceptance, tempering firmness with suavity, and 
dignity with an agreeable and well-proportioned jocosity. The 
records of previous past-graduation meetings, having been called 
for, were read by the Secretary, and, after some little good-humored 
criticism, were approved and accepted. The following resolution 
was offered by Fuller, and was unanimously adopted : — 

''^Resolved, That the thanks of the Class of 1853 are due, and they are hereby 
tendered, to Brother William A. Wheeler, Class Secretary, for the exhaustive 
and admirable manner in which he has prepared the records of the Class, and 
for his painstaking efforts to render the re-union of 1873 the success it has 
proved." 

On motion, it was voted to publish the Record of the Class, and 
to raise the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars for the pur- 
5 



34 Botoljoin College* 

pose. Goodenow was chosen a committee to obtain subscriptions 
from members of the Class. No less than a hundred and thirty 
dollars was pledged on the spot, in amounts varying from twenty-five 
dollars to ten ; and in several cases a willingness was expressed 
to give more, if necessary. 

No other business coming before the meeting, at eleven o'clock 
adjourned sine die. 



II 



BIOGRAPHICAL 



"The story of my life 
From year to year." — Shakespeare, Otkeilo, i, 3. 

" Useless, while they sleep In union, 
Are the germs the seed-cells hold ; 
Not till each is lone and scattered, 
Doits charms and worth unfold." — Southgate. 



"§at ®Dtt nu(^ o^ue mt(^ 
©ebrac^t in biefeS yeben ; 
2BivD er aucl) cl;)ne iiitc^ 
®a§, wag mit niifeet, ge6en." — 8 g a u. 



BIOGRAPHICAL, 



JONATHAN EDWARDS ADAMS. 

Born, 1822, Monday, April 29, at Woolwich, Maine. Eldest child 
of the Reverend Jonathan Adams and Hannah Antoi- 
nette (Clough) Adams. 
1849. Entered Freshman, from Deer Isle, having pursued his 
preparatory studies at Andover (under Joseph P. 
Drummond), at Deer Isle (under Charles A. SpofFord), 
and at Hampden (under William Baker). 
1853. After graduation, taught in the Academy at St. Stephens, 
New Brunswick. 

1855. Sunday, August 12, married. See below. 

1856. Left St. Stephens, and in November entered the Middle 

Class, at the General Theological Seminary, Bangor. 

1858. Thursday, July 29, graduated from the Theological Semi- 

nary. Supplied the First and Second Congregationalist 
Churches in Boothbay. 

1859. Thursday, April 21, connection with the societies in 

Boothbay terminated. Wednesday, August 31, wife died. 
Wednesday, October 19, ordained pastor of the Con- 
gregationalist Church in New Sharon. 
1861. Tuesday, May 7, married again. See below. 

1863. Employed for eight weeks by the Christian Commission 

at Alexandria, Washington, and Gettysburg. 

1864. Dismissed from New Sharon, and began labor with the 

First Congregationalist Church at Searsport, Sunday, 
July 10. 
1866. Wednesday, May 16, installed over the First Congregation- 
alist Church, Searsport. 



40 Bobtioin €alltst. 

College Societies. Was a member of the Athenasan, ^^\T., and 

Praying Circle. 
Degrees received. A.B. (Bowdoin, 1853) ; A.M. (Bowdoin, 1856). 
Married (i), 1858, Wednesday, June 23, at Goshen, Massachusetts, 

to Martha Williams Baker of Conway, Massachusetts, 

by the Reverend Thomas H. Rood of Goshen. 
(2), 1865, Thursday, September 7, to Mary Lavina 

Hayes, daughter of George Washington Hayes and 

Miriam Hayes of Somerville, Massachusetts. 
Child. Mary Eliza, born Tuesday, February 9, 1869, at Calais, 

Maine; died Wednesday, October 13, 1869; buried at 

Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



tJOHN LELAND CROSBY. 

Born at Bangor, Saturday, May 17, 1834. Second son and child of 
James Crosby and Eliza Leland (Adams) Crosby. 

1849. Entered Freshman, his preparatory studies having been 
pursued under the superintendence of the Reverend 
William Lyman Hyde. 

1852. Tuesday, August 10, received an honorable dismissal at 
his own request, having been compelled to leave college 
on account of ill health. Became a merchant's clerk at 
Bangor. 

1855. Monday, September 10, became a member of the firm of 
Pearson and Crosby, wholesale grocers, Bangor. 

1862. Tuesday, April i, engaged in the ship-chandlery and ship- 
building business, at Bangor, as junior partner in the 
firm of Thurston and Crosby. 

1868. In ship-building and lumber business, as a member of the 
same firm. 

187 1. " Monday, March 27, chosen an assessor of the city of 

Bangor. 

1872. Monday, March 25, re-elected to the same office. 

1873. Monday, March 24, chosen city treasurer. 

College Societies. Was a member of the Peucinian Society, and of 
the z/. K.E. Fraternity. 



Class 0f 1853* 41 

Married, 1855, Thursday, September 27, at Bangor, to Rosa Mar- 
garet LuNT, daug"hter of Samuel and Rosanna Maxwell 
(Reed) Lunt, by the Reverend George Barker Little ; 
all of that place. 
Children, (i.) George Adams Crosby, born at Bangor, Sunday, 
August 10, 1856, at four, p.m. 

(2.) Caroline Leland Crosby, born at Bangor, Sunday, 
May 2, 1858, at three, a.m. 

(3.) James Crosby, born at Bangor, Saturday, April 5, 1862, 
at one, p.m. 

(4.) Charles Drummond Crosby, born at Bangor, Saturday, 
December 12, 1863, at seven, a.m. 



EPHRAIM CHAMBERLAIN CUMMINGS. 

Born, 1825, Friday, September 2, at Albany, Maine. Second son 
and fourth child of Francis and Lois Chamberlain Cum- 
mings. 

Pursued his preparatory studies at North Yarmouth 
Academy, under Allen H. Weld, A.M., and passed his 
examination for admission to college on leaving the 
academy, in 1841, but did not enter until the Fall Term 
of 1849, when he joined the Freshman Class. 

1853. After graduating, engaged in an academy at Bucksport, 

and subsequently became principal of the Augusta High 
School. 

1854. In the fall, became tutor in Bowdoin College. 

1855. In the fall, entered the Bangor Theological Seminary. 

1858. Wednesday, March 17, settled as pastor of the First 

Church in Brewer. 

1859. Variously occupied. 

1860-70. Pastor of the North Congregational Church in St. 
Johnsbury, Vermont. Settled Thursday, May 10, i860. 
For nine months, in 1862-63, served as chaplain in the 
Fifteenth Regiment of Vermont Volunteers. In 1865-66 
absent in Europe and the East for ten months. In 1869 
went again to Europe, where he remained for two years, 
returning in 187 1. 
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42 Boiutiotn €allzsz. 

1872. Variously occupied. Saturday, December 28, appointed 

provisional professor of mental and moral philosophy 
in Bowdoin College. 

1873. Published a volume of discourses entitled Birth and Bap- 

tism. Professorship expired by limitation at the end of 
the college year. 

College Societies. Member of the Peucinian, the J. K. E., the 
0. B. K., and the Praying Circle. 

Degrees. A.B. and A.M. at Bowdoin, in course. 

Married, 1866, Thursday, October 18, at Portland, to Annie Louisa 
PoMEROY, daughter of the Reverend Swan Lyman 
Pomeroy, D.D., and Anne Quincy Pomeroy, all of that 
city, by the Reverend Hugh Smith Carpenter of Brook- 
lyn, New York. 

Children. None. 



t RALPH WARDLAW CUMMINGS. 

Born, 1832, Tuesday, September 4, at North Yarmouth, Maine. 
Fourth son and sixth child of Asa Cummings and 
Phebe (Johnson) Cummings. 
1849. Entered Freshman, from Portland, having fitted for college 
at Yarmouth, under Samuel Howard Shepley, D.D. 

185 1. Left college in the spring, because he had lost ground, 

and was too ill to catch up with the Class. 

1852. Employed in Portland as clerk in a drug store. 

1853. Drug-clerk, and student in medicine. 

1854. Clerk, and student in medicine, at Fall River, Massa- 

chusetts. 

1855. Student in medicine ; attended lectures at Brunswick. 

1856. Graduated, in March, at the New York Medical College. 

1857. Engaged in the practice of medicine. Married May 20, 

and left a widower in December. See below. 

1858. Edited and published " The Maine Medical and Surgical 

Journal," losing twelve hundred dollars by the operation. 

1859. Still practicing medicine. In addition, managed a theatre 

and lost more money. 
i860. Removed to Detroit, Michigan, and subsequently to Bay 
City in the same State, continuing the practice of his 
g!lt<(2)ifeSsion. 



Class of 1853. 



43 



1861. Friday, April 19, enlisted as a private in Company A, 

First Michigan Infantry Volunteers, serving in the Army 
of the Potomac. 

1862. Private, and subsequently first sergeant, in Company F, 

First Michigan Infantry Volunteers ; promoted to be 



assistant surgeon. 



1863. In the field, without the loss of a day during the year. 

1864. Surgeon in the First United States Colored Artillery 

(Heavy) ; in the field. 

1865. Tuesday, March 14, married the second time. See below. 

First leave of absence since entering the army. 

1866. Saturday, March 31, mustered out of service. Resumed 

the practice of medicine, settling in Attica, Indiana. 

1867. Physician, and life-insurance and claim agent, at Knox- 

ville, Tennessee. 

1868. Returned to Bay City, and to medical practice. 

1869. Still practicing medicine. 

1870. Engaged in the drug business at Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

187 1. Sold out, and returned to practice. 

1873. Associate editor of " The Minneapolis Evening Times and 
News." 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean and the A. A. r/j. 

Degrees received. M.D. (from the New York Medical College, New 
York city). 

Married (i), 1857, Wednesday, May 20, at Boston, Massachusetts, 
to Alice Ilsley Waterhouse, daughter of Israel and 
Ann Waterhouse of Portland, by the Reverend. Nehemiah 
Adams of Boston. She died Saturday, December 5, of 
peritonitis \ buried at Portland. 
(2), 1865, Tuesday, March 14, at Knoxville, Tennessee, 
to Eunice Flora Miner, daughter of Henry and 
Matilda Miner of Attica, Indiana, by the Reverend 
Chaplain Bowman, United States Army. 

Children (by second wife), (i.) Ethel Morton Cummings, born Mon- 
day, September 23, 1867, at Knoxville, Tennessee. 
(2.) Melanie Noyes Cummings, born Wednesday, Septem- 
ber 15, 1869, at Bay City, Michigan ; died Thursday^ 
September 29, 1870, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, where 
she lies buried. 



44 BoSnUjjin (Q^ollege. 



HENRY RICHARDS DOWNES. 

Born, 1832, Monday, September 17, at Calais, Maine. Son of 
George and Betsey Light (Danforth) Downes. 
1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at North Yar- 
mouth, under Allen H. Weld and Samuel Howard 
Shepley, D.D. 

1853. After graduating, commenced the study of law at Concord, 

Massachusetts (in November). 

1854. In September, entered the Law School of Harvard Uni- 

versity. 

1855. In August, became a student in the office of John Quincy 

Adams Griffin of Charlestown, Massachusetts, remaining 
until the following July. 

1856. • Admitted to the bar, at Concord. In December, removed. 

to Sioux City, Iowa, and engaged in the practice of his 
profession. 
1858. In July, left Sioux City, and in the following November 
settled at Presque Isle, Maine, where he has since 
remained. 
1864. September. At the State election, chosen judge of pro- 
bate for the term of four years, beginning January i, 
1865. 
1868. Re-elected to the same office. 

1872. Re-elected for a third term, which commenced on the 
first of January, 1873. 
College Societies. Member of the Athenaean, the W. T., and the 

Scott and Graham Club. 
Degrees received. A.B. and A.M., in course. 

Married, 1862, Wednesday, June 4, at Presque Isle, to Vashti 
Harriet Whidden, daughter of Benjamin and Cynthia 
Whidden, by the Reverend Daniel Stickney ; all of that 
place. 
Children. None. 



Cniass of 1853. 45 



WILLIAM PALEY DREW. 

Born, 1829, Wednesday, November 11, at Augusta, Maine. First son 
and third child of William Allen and Melinda (Morrill) 
Drew. 
1850. Entered Sophomore, his preparatory studies having been 
pursued at Phillips Exeter Academy, under the charge of 
Professor Soule. 

1853. Soon after graduation, elected professor of ancient lan- 

guages and classical literature at Tufts College. 

1854. In May, entered Harvard College as a resident graduate, 

with the view of better fitting himself for the duties of his 
professorship, which he assumed in the autumn. 

1857. Resigned his professorship, and entered into an engage- 
ment with Doctor Joseph E. Worcester to assist in the 
preparation of his quarto Dictionary. 

i860. Returned to Augusta, and became private secretary to 
Governor Israel Washburn, junior. 

1863. On the retirement of Governor Washburn was engaged 

for some time in the provost-marshal's office, at Augusta. 

1864. Received a clerkship in the War Department, at the in- 

stance of the Honorable James G. Blaine, and removed 
to Washington. On the organization of the Freedman's 
Bureau, appointed by General Oliver O. Howard chief 
of claims and bounty division, which office he held until 
the abolition of the bureau. 
1872. Appointed national bank examiner for Eastern Pennsyl- 
vania and the State of New Jersey. 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean and X. ^^\ Societies 
and of the Scott and Graham Club. Was president of 
the last of these. Also a member of the f/>. B. K. Society. 

Degrees received. A.B. and A.M., at Bowdoin, in course. 

Married, 1855, Wednesday, October 17, at Augusta, to Livonia 
Perkins Rust, daughter of Benjamin and Livonia Rust, 
by the Reverend William Allen Drew; all of that 
place. 

Child. Mary Linda Drew, born Sunday, February 3, 1861. 



46 Bobjtroin College. 



*t CHARLES DRUMMOND. 

" When faith and love, which parted from thee never, 
Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with God, 
Meekly thou didst resign this earthly load 
Of death, called life, which us from life doth sever." — Milton, Son. xiv. 

Born, 1831, Monday, July 11, at Phipsburg, Maine. Eldest son and 

child of Captain Jacob Drummond and Mary Ann 

(Drummond) Drummond. 
1849. Entered Freshman, from Bangor, his preparatory studies 

having been pursued at Bangor, under the Reverend 

William Lyman Hyde. 
Died, 1853, Sunday, August 28, at North Conway, New Hampshire, 

and was buried Thursday, September i, at Mount Hope 

Cemetery, Bangor. Crosby, E. C. Cummings, M. Emery, 

and Southgate acted as pall-bearers. 
College Societies. Member of the Athensean, the J.K.E., the Scott 

and Graham Club, and the Praying Circle. 
Degrees received. A.B. (Bowdoin, 1853, post mortem). 

The following verses were written by Southgate : — 

LINES 

In memory of Charles Drummond, of the Bozudoin Class ef 1853. 



" God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." — i John, i, 5. 

How strange appear the things of our existence, 
When, wandering listless through unused retreats. 

The soul turns back, and, viewing from the distance, 
Sees with new eyes the daily facts it meets ! 

We see but products : back of all discerning 

Works mystical machinery unseen. 
Where glittering bands 'twixt heaven and earth are turning, 

And guiding fingers come and go between. 

We find ourselves, in life's first conscious morning, 
In pilgrim garb, and staffs witliin our hands. 

Impelled to journey, without light or warning, 
By unknown courses, into unnamed lands. 



Class of 1853. 47 



E'en while we walk, in learning wonder gazing 
On sequent marvels that our way bedight, 

O'er eager eyes a dusky film comes glazing, 
And trembling feet are groping in the night. 

At length we miss one from among our number, 
And, searching back, can only find where lies 

A cold, stiff form, wrapped in a wakeless slumber, 
While Hylas-echoes mock our frantic cries. 

These are thy facts, O Reason : take and ponder ; 

Strain, Orpheus-like, into the deepening gloom ; 
Track the lost life ; lift off this heavy wonder ! 

Oh, life-guide, know, not guess, beyond the tomb I 

Vain, taunting prayer. Poor consolation giveth 
Coarse-fingered Reason, grasping at a wraith : 

The sure " I know that my Redeemer liveth " 
Chants no cold reason, but a fervent faith. 

Thou canst, O Faith, the mystery unravel ; 

By thee we track the strange, lost life we miss : 
The loved that Cadmus sought, with weary travel, 

A god had raised to his isles of bliss. 



JAMES WALLACE EMERY. 

Born, 1829, Saturday morning, February 7, at Buxton, Maine. 
Second son and fourth child of Samuel and Anne 
(Elwell) Emery. 

1849. Entered Freshman, from Lovell, his preparatory studies 
having been pursued chiefly at North Bridgton, Maine, 
under Moses Soule (a graduate of Bowdoin, class of 
1829). He did not join the Class, however, until the 
beginning of the Sophomore Year. 

1853. After graduating, started (Thursday, October 13) from 
Boston for Texas, on board of the bark " Kepler," bound 
to New Orleans, in which city he arrived, after a voyage 
of twenty-one days ; and in six more he landed in 
Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, where he expected to 
find employment as a teacher. Finding no opening here, 
however, he allowed himself to be " lured back sixty 
miles into the woods, to a one-horse town," where, in 



48 33 intra in College. 

1854. he opened a school. Here he continued eight months, 

and then — 

1855. (January) took a little better set of scholars. In the sum- 

mer his health failed, and for two months his life was in 
danger. He then made a trip of three hundred miles 
into the wilderness, and returned fat and well. About 
the ist of December, started for the North, and arrived 
in Boston the night before Christmas. 

1856. In the spring, took charge of Limington Academy, and 

boarded with the father of William Miltimore Mc Arthur. 
In September, removed to Minnesota, and obtained a 
quarter section of prairie-land by pre-emption. Not 
succeeding here to his satisfaction, he concluded to re- 
turn to Texas. 

1857. Friday, December 25, arrived at Rusk County. 

1858. Engaged in teaching school in the town of Bunkerhill. 

1859. At the same place, and engaged in the same occupation. 
i860. Thursday, January 19, married to one of his pupils, she 

being, at the time, fifteen years and ten months old. 
See below. In the autumn, bought a wagon and two 
yoke of oxen, and removed two hundred and fifty miles 
to Comanche Court House, Comanche County. In 
Rusk County, he had become an object of suspicion and 
dislike to his neighbors, on account of an unfortunate 
" error in the latitude of his nativity ; " but this fact 
was not among the considerations that induced him to 
seek a change of residence. 

1861. Teaching school in Comanche. ^' Never dared to go out- 

side of the town without a six-shooter, for fear of the 
noble red man ' slipping up ' on him. Coming home 
from up town late one night, was taken for an Indian by 
his wife, and came near testing her skill in the use of 
fire-arms." 

1862. Still teaching. Elected clerk of the District Court, and 

appointed postmaster. To his occupancy of these two 
. offices, he owed it that he was not drafted into the Con- 
federate army. In the latter part of this year, he re- 
turned to Rusk County, where he remained till 1871, 
always teaching. " The close of the war found him the 
possessor of some few promises of the Confederate gov- 
einment, a mule slightly over the size of a wharf-rat, 



Slass of 1853. 49 

and an exceedingly scanty wardrobe. During the years 
succeeding the war, he has reason to beUeve that 
the question of ' nicking his tread ' has been considered 
in Ku-Klux Klans. He rejoices in the hope that their 
days are numbered, and also in the thought that his first 
vote for president of the United States was cast ... for 
the man who whipped the secession[ists] into the traces." 

1872. Teaching a public school in Kaufman, Kaufman County. 

1873. Teaching a private school at Kaufman. 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean, and of the A. K.E. 
Degrees received. A.B. (Bowdoin, 1853), A.M. (Bowdoin, 1856). 
Married, i860, Thursday, January 19, eight o'clock, p.m., at Bunker- 
hill, Rusk County, Texas, by the Reverend James B. Hall 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, to Elizabeth 
Jane Brown, daughter of Neill and Margaret (Johnson) 
Brown ; all of the same place. Elizabeth Jane was born 
March 16, 1844. 
Children, (i.) Mary Effie, born Sunday, March 3, 1861, eleven o'clock, 
A.M., at Comanche, Texas, United States. 
(2.) Rupert, born Wednesday, March 18, 1863, eight o'clock, 

A.M., Rusk County, Texas, Confederate States. 
(3.) Cid, born Friday, April 21, 1865, eleven o'clock, a.m., 

Rusk County, Texas, (Doubtful). 
(4.) Lois, born Saturday, March 23, 1867, four o'clock, 

P.M., Rusk County, Texas, United States. 
(5.) Sybil, born Thursday, April i, 1869, four o'clock, a.m., 

Rusk County, Texas, United States. 
(6.) Arthur Mc Arthur, born Thursday, December i, 1870, 
eight o'clock, p.m.. Rusk County, Texas, United States. 
(7.) A boy (not named), born Monday, November 18, 
1872, two o'clock, A.M., Kaufman County, Texas, United 
States ; died, March 4, 1873, at Kaufman. 



MARCELLUS EMERY. 

Born, 1830, Saturday, July 24, at Frankfort, Maine. Son and child 

of Doctor James Emery and Sally Rowe Emery. 

1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at Yarmouth, 

under Allen H. Weld and Samuel H. Shepley. 
6 



50 iSoiutioin College. 

1853. After graduating, employed as principal of the City High 
School, at Gardiner, Maine. 

1855. In August, resigned and went to Woodville,, Mississippi, 

and taught in a private family. ' 

1856. In May left Woodville, and entered the law-office of 

Wheeler and Robinson, in Evansville, Indiana. In 
July returned to Maine, and took the stump for Bu- 
chanan and Breckenridge. In October entered the law- 
office of Abraham Sanborn, in Bangor. Admitted to the 
bar in November. 

1857. Tuesday, February i, entered into partnership with Abraham 

Sanborn. Saturday, August i, became editor of " The 

Bangor Daily Union," and also of '* The Democrat," a 

weekly paper. 
1859. In March, elected an alderman from ward one, and served 

one year. Declined a re-election. 
i860. Chairman of Breckenridge State Democratic Committee. 

186 1. Thursday^ August 12, press destroyed by a political mob. 

1862. Engaged in the practice of law in Bangor. 

1863. Thursday, January i, revived "The Democrat." 

1864. Delegate to the Chicago Democratic National Convention. 
1868. Unanimously elected delegate to the New York Democratic 

National Convention, by the Fourth District Congress- 
ional Convention. In the convention, Tuesday, July 7, 
on behalf of the minority of the Maine delegation, pre- 
sented the name of the Honorable George H. Pendleton 
of Ohio for nomination as the Democratic candidate 
for president. 
1870. Monday, August 15, nominated as the Democratic candi- 
date for Congress in the Fourth Congressional District. 
1872. Monday, January i, established "The Bangor Daily Com- 
mercial." Thursday, July 18, unanimously nominated 
Democratic and Liberal candidate for Congress. 

College Societies. Member of the Athencean and '*!**. T. Societies, 
and of the Granite Club. 

Degrees received. A.B. and A.M., at Bowdoin, in course. 

Unmarried, 



^lass of 1853. 51 



STEPHEN FOSS. 

Born, 1825, Monday^ June 20, at New Portland, Maine. Eldest son 
and child of Edmund and Hannah Dinslow Foss. 
1848. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at Braintree, 
Massachusetts, under William M. Thayer and Benjamin 
Kendall. At the end of the year, he left college, but 
re-entered in 1850 as Sophomore, falling back into the 
class below. 

1853. After graduation, attended lectures at the Medical School 

of Harvard University. 

1854. Went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and practised as a dentist, 

pursuing the study of medicine under the late James 
Allen, of Edinburgh. 

1858. Left Halifax, returned to Boston, Massachusetts, and 

again became a member of the Harvard Medical School. 

1859. Graduated, and opened an office as physician, in Boston. 
i860. AVent to Havana. 

186 1. Returned to the United States, and settled in Cincinnati. 

1862. Entered the service of the United States, as surgeon in 

the navy. Was taken sick, and returned to Cincinnati. 
On recovering, resumed the practice of his profession. 

187 1. Removed to Saint Mary's, Kansas, and engaged in practice. 

1872. Engaged in teaching school, and practicing medicine. 
College Societies. Member of the Athensean. 

Degrees received. A.B. (Bowdoin, 1853), A.M. (Bowdoin, 1856), 

M.D. (Harvard, 1859). 
Married, 1867, Tuesday, February 5, at Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alice 

Maria Good, daughter of John and Jane Good, by the 

Reverend Father Driscoll, S. J., of Saint Xavier Church. 
Child. Stephen Foss, jun., born Wednesday, January 29, 1868, 

at Cincinnati. 



MELVILLE WESTON FULLER. 

" Ubi mel, ibi apes." — Plautus. 

Born, 1833, Monday, February 11, at Augusta, Maine. Second 
son and child of Frederick Apthorp Fuller and Catherine 
Martin (Weston) Fuller, his wife. 



52 ^DiutJoin College. 

1849. Entered college, having pursued his preparatory course at 
Augusta^ under the instruction of Jonas Burnham. 
Lived at first in the family of the Reverend Thomas 
Fales, then the Episcopalian clergyman at Brunswick. 

1853. In the fall, after graduating, began the study of law at 

Bangor, in the office of George Melville Weston, and, by 
way of recreation, lectured, and delivered poems. 

1854. Entered the Harvard Law School, where he spent six 

months, rooming most of the time with Downes. 

1855. In January, returned to Bangor, and worked in the 

office of the clerk of the courts for Penobscot County, 
the then clerk being liis uncle. About May, went to 
Augusta, and entered into partnership with Benjamin 
A. G. Fuller, in the practice of the law and in the publi- 
cation of "The Age." His time was chiefly taken up 
in editorial and " reportorial " duties. In the summer, 
on short notice, he prepared and delivered an oration 
before the annual meeting of the X. W. Fraternity, at 
Springfield, Massachusetts. 

1856. Elected a member of the common council of Augusta, 

and president of that body. Was also chosen city 
solicitor, but in May resigned, and left for the West. 
In June, or about then, settled in Chicago, and formed a 
law partnership with older residents and practitioners, 
and entered at once upon a fair business. Has ever 
since been sedulously engaged in the practice of his 
profession, sometimes with partners, sometimes not. 

1858. Married, Monda}', June 28. See below. 

1859. At the Bowdoin Commencement, delivered the poem before 

the United Literary Societies ; Doctor Josiah G. Holland 

being the orator of the occasion. 
i860. Made the welcoming speech, at Michigan City, Indiana, 

to Judge Douglas, on his return from Washington. It 

was published in the Chicago papers. Campaigned for 

Douglas, as he had previously done (in 1856) for Bu- 
. chanan. Delivered a poem before the Young Men's 

Association of Chicago, and also before the societies of 

the Chicago University. 
1861. Lectured in the course of the Young Men's Association. 

In November, elected, together with John Wentworth 

(" Long John ") a delegate to the State Constitutional 

Convention. 



©lass of 1853. 53 

1862. Served three months as a member of the Constitutional 

Convention; was on the judiciary and other commit- 
tees. His speech in commemoration of the death of 
Judge Douglas was widely published. In the fall of this 
year he was elected a member of the House of Rep- 
resentatives of the General Assembly of the State of 
Illinois, having a majority of five in a district largely 
Republican. The canvassers threw out a part of the 
returns, and gave the certificate to his opponent ; but he 
got out a mandamus from the Supreme Court, and 
succeeded in obtaining his seat. [Case is reported 
29 Illi7iois 413, People ex rel. Melville W. Fuller vs. 
Hilliard et al. See " American Law Register," March, 
1863.] 

1863. Member of the Illinois General Assembly. 

1864. Member of the Democratic National Convention. Wife 

died Sunday, November 13. See below. 
1866. Wednesday, May 30, married a second time {see beloiv)^ 
and left for Europe. 

1869. Commenced the defence of the Reverend Charles Edward 

Cheney, D.D., accused before a (so called) ecclesiastical 
court of the offence of leaving the word " regenerate " out 
of the Office of Infant Baptism, in the Book of Common 
Prayer. Enjoined the clerics from proceeding, and sus- 
tained the injunction in the court below. 

1870. Argued the Cheney case (which excited great attention) 

in the Supreme Court. 

187 1. Great fire in Chicago, Monday, October 9. Mr. Fuller's 

losses were large. But, though the results of many 
years' labor thus disappeared in an hour, the capital of 
knowledge, experience, and standing as a lawyer, re- 
mained. 

1872. Delegate to the Baltimore Democratic Convention. Was 

opposed to Mr. Greeley, but acquiesced. 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean, the X 'V.^ the 
f/>. B, K., and the Granite Club. 

Degrees received. A.B. and A.M. at Bowdoin, in course. 

Married (i), 1858, Monday, June 28, at Chicago, to Calista Ophelia 
Reynolds, daughter of Eri Reynolds and Catiierine, his 
wife, by the Reverend John W. Clark ; all of that city. She 
died Sunday, November 13, 1864, and was buried at 
Chicago. 



54 330bJlioin ^allege. 

(2), 1866, Wednesday, May 30, at Chicago, to Mary Ellen 
CooLBAUGH, daughter of William F. Coolbaugh and 
Jane E. (Brown) Coolbaugh, his wife, by the Reverend 
Daniel Cony Weston, D.D., of Connecticut, assisted 
by the Reverend Clinton Locke, D.D., of Chicago. 
Children, (i.) Grace Weston, born Wednesday, July 31, 186 1. 

(2.) Maud, born Thursday, January 7, 1864. 

(3.) Mary Coolbaugh, born Sunday, March 17, 1867. 

(4.) Mildred, born Friday, January i, 1869. 

(5.) Pauline Cony, born Monday, May 2, 1870. 

(6.) Melville Weston, born Thursday, October 12, 1871. 
(three days after the great fire). 

(7.) Catherine Weston, born Thursday, January 25, 1873. 



HENRY CLAY GOODENOW. 

Born, 1834, Monday, June 23, at Alfred, Maine. Second son and 
third child of Daniel and Sarah Ann (Holmes) Goodenow. 
1849. Entered college in August, at a special examination of the 
class from North Yarmouth Academy, just before the 
beginning of the Fall Term. Had previously studied 
at the Alfred Academy, under Charles McLaughlan 
Cumston, Samuel Woodbury Mitchell, John Munroe 
Goodwin, and John Anderson Waterman. 

1853. In the fall, after graduating, taught a high school at the 

village of Dam's Mills, Newfield, Maine. 

1854. Began the study of law at Alfred, about the first of 

January. In the spring, taught Alfred Academy for one 
term, and then resumed the study of law. 

1856. Admitted to the bar, in the Supreme Judicial Court, York 
County, in September. In November, commenced prac- 
tice in Biddeford, Maine. 

1858. Removed to Lewiston, and formed a law partnership with 
the Honorable Charles William Goddard, now of Port- 
land. 

1861. Partnership with Mr. Goddard dissolved, he having received 
an appointment as United States consul-general at 
Constantinople. 

1864. Cliosen a member of the common council of Lewiston, 



Class of 1853. 55 

* 

1865. Member of the board of aldermen of Lewiston. 

1866. Member of the board of aldermen again. In October, 

removed to Bangor, and relinquished the profession of 
law for the corn and flour business. 

1869. April, resumed the practice of law. 

1870. Monday, March 28, chosen a member of the superintending 

school committee, and, by successive re-elections, con- 
tinued in that position until the present time. 

187 1. Monday, March 27, chosen city solicitor. 

1872. Monday, March 25, re-elected to the same office. 

1873. Monday, March 24, re-elected solicitor for the second time. 

Tuesday, April 22, on the unanimous request of the bar 
of Bangor, appointed by Governor Perham to the office 
of police judge of that city. Entered on the duties of 
the office, Wednesday, April 30. 

College Societies. Member of the Athensean and W. T. and of the 
Scott and Graham Club. 

Degrees received. A.B., 1853 ; A.M. i860 ; both from Bowdoin. 

Married, i860, Tuesday, December 4, at Bangor, Maine, to Mary 
Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Walter and Sarah 
QuiMBY Brown, by the Reverend Doctor George Shep- 
ard, assisted by the Reverend Doctor Samuel Harris ; 
all of Bangor. 

Children, (i.) Sarah, born at Lewiston, Maine, Monday, October 
28, 1861. 
(2.) Daniel, born at Lewiston, Maine, Monday, De- 
cember 15, 1862. 
(3.) Walter Brown, born at Lewiston, Maine, Monday, 

February 27, 1865. 
(4.) Frank, born at Bangor, Maine, Saturday, December 

24, 1870. 
(5.) Annie, born at Bangor, Maine, Tuesday, September 
24, 1872. 



t JAMES HOLWELL KIDDER. 

Born, 183 1, Sunday, October 9, at Portland, Maine. Second child 

of James Drummond and Marianne (Holwell) Kidder. 

1850. Entered the Sophomore Class at the beginning of the 

Fall Term, having pursued his preparatory studies at the 



56 iSobJtioin College. 

Portland Academy (under the Reverend Wheelock 
Craig) and at the school of James Furbish, Esq. At 
the end of the term, left college on account of poor 
health, and went to work on his father's farm, near Port- 
land, studying a little as health and circumstances per- 
mitted. 

1856. Became a candidate for holy orders in the diocese of 

Maine. 

1857. In September, entered the General Theological Seminary 

of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City. 
i860. Graduated Thursday, June 28 ; made deacon by Bishop 
Burgess, in Saint Luke's Church, Portland, Wednesday, 
July 1 1 ; was put in temporary charge of Saint Thomas's 
Church, Camden, until November, and then in charge 
of Christ Church, Eastport. 
1 86 1. Advanced to the priesthood, Wednesday, June 19, and 

made rector of Christ church. 
1863. Wednesday, July i, became rector of Saint Matthew's 

Church, Unadilla, Otsego County, New York. 
1868. Saturday, August i, entered upon the rectorship of Saint 
Paul's Church, Owego, New York. 
College Societies. Member of the A. A. <b. 

Married, 1865, Wednesday, February 15, Miss Rebecca Jeffery, 
eldest daughter of Captain Freeman, and his wife Re- 
becca, Jeffery, in Saint Paul's Church, Brooklyn, New 
Yoik; the Reverend Doctor Thomas Stafford Drowne 
officiating. 
Children, (i.) Maud, born Monday, March 12, 1866, in Unadilla. 
(2.) Hugh, born Friday, August 27, 1869, in Owego. 
(3.) Arthur, born Saturday, March 8, 1873, in Owego. 



* GEORGE STONE KIMBALL. 

" Tedvafievai yap KoXbv tnl Trpofrnxoiai ireoovTa 

uvSp' ayaObv, nepl ^ naTpldi fxapvufievov." — Tyrt^^.US. 

Born, 1833, Wednesday, January 2, at Gardiner, Maine. Third son 
and fifth child of Captain Nathaniel Kimball and Julia 
(Stone) Kimball^ his wife. 



Class at 1853. 57 

1849. Entered with the Class, his preparatory studies having been 
pursued at Wiscasset. 

1853. After graduation he remained at Brunswick, and commenced 

the study of law. 

1854. Continued his studies in the office of Henry Ingalls, Esq., 

at Wiscasset. Married June i. See below. 

1855. Visited Europe. 

1856. Resumed the study of law at Brunswick. 

1857. Studying law at Wiscasset. 

1858. At Stillwater, Minnesota, engaged in the practice of his 

profession. Divorced from his wife. (See volume 36, 
folio 165, of the Records of the Supreme Judicial Court 
for Cumberland County, January term, i860.) 

1859. At the same place. 
i860. Returned to Gardiner. 

1861. Commissioned as lieutenant in the First Maine Cavalry, 

Company C, October. 
Died, 1863, Friday, June 19, at Aldie, Virginia, aged thirty years, 

five months, and eighteen days. Killed in a cavalry 

charge. Buried at Gardiner, in Oak Grove Cemetery. 
College Societies. Member of the Athenaean, the X. ^-^., and the 

Granite Club. 
Degrees received. A. B. and A. M., at Bowdoin, in course. 
Married, 1854, Thursday, June i, at Brunswick, by the Reverend 

Charles Ayer, to Elizabeth Ann Potter, both of the 

same place. 
Child. Ellen Julia, born Thursday, December 6, 1855, at 

Brunswick. (The Class Baby.) See below. 

The following extracts are from a letter written to Mr. Frederic N. 
Kimball by Horatio S. Libby, under date of Middlebury, Virginia, 
June 21, 1863 : — 

"Friend Kimball, — Ere you receive this, you will have learned the sad 
intelligence of the death of your brother George in the recent fight near this 
place. He was shot while gallantly leading his company to the charge on the 
enemy. They were flying before us. The enemy were observed moving up on 
our flank. The lieutenant gave the command, ' Right about ! ' the last words 
he uttered. The ball passed through him before he turned. A brave spirit has 
fallen. We are sad at his loss. You and your family have our heartfelt 
sympathy. 

" We made three charges : he fell in the first. The enemy had possession of 
the ground long enough to steal from our brave dead. 



58 36ohjtJotn (JTollegE. 

" I found fifty dollars in a pocket on the inside of George's shirt. The money 
was given to the sergeant (Company M) who accompanied the body — with 
other of our officers who were killed — to Washington, to pay the expenses of 
embalming, &c. 

** We shall never forget how George fell." 

Another comrade (W. L. Whitney) writes, under date of Saturday, 
July II, 1863, " George was ever at the post of duty, as well in the 
hour of danger as on other occasions. He won the highest 
esteem." 

Extract from " Resolutions adopted by the First Maine Cavalry, 
on the death of Colonel C. S. Douty, and the officers and the men 
of the regiment, who fell upon the seventeenth, nineteenth, and 
twenty-first days of June, 1863." 

" Resolved, That in the death of Captain George S. Summatt . . . and in the 
death of Lieutenants George S. Kimball, l!. H. Taylor, and Mark Neville, who 
fell at Middlebury, June 19, 1863, we have lost brothers-in-arms whose gallant 
bravery, generous virtues, and tried friendship, will ever endear them to our 
remembrance. They died the soldier's noblest death, bravely urging their men 
to efforts which brought victory to the cause for which they were battling." 

ELLEN JULIA KIMBALL. 

Born, 1855, Thursday, December 6, at Brunswick. 

1855-59. Resided with her mother in Brunswick and Portland. In the sum- 
mer and fall of 1859 attended Miss Springer's school at Brunswick. 
In December, 1859, removed to New York City. 

1860-68. Home in New York. From i860 to 1864 a member of Saint Mark's 
School, in Brooklyn. In 1864 traveled in the West. In 1866 
returned to Saint Mark's. In 1865 began to attend Miss Hinck- 
ley's school, in Brunswick, where she remained for three years. 

1868, 69. Resided at Buckfield, Maine, where she was placed at a private 
school. In July, 1869, removed to Canton, Maine. 

1869-73. Living at Canton. From April, 1870, to July, 1872, at school at 
Saint Catherine's Hall, Augusta. In September of the latter year 
went to Westbrook Seminary, where she remained for one term. 
Is about to enter Vassar College. 

*** Has no present intention of changing her surname. 

Note. — The Class cup was procured by Drew, and was presented to Miss 
Kimball, in 1856. It is of silver, is three inches and a half high, and bears the 
following inscription, "Presented by the Class of 1853 to Julia Ellen (born 
December 6, 1855), daughter of George S. and Elizabeth A. Kimball. Fide 
atqice Amorey 



Class of 1853, 59 



WOODBURY FOGG LANGDON. 

Born, 1830, Monday, February i, at Rumney, New Hampshire. 
First son and second child of James Fogg Langdon 
and Rhoda (Hill) Langdon. 
1850. Entered Sophomore, from Plymouth, New Hampshire, 
having fitted for college at Andover, New Hampshire, 
under Moses Leland Morse. 

1853. After graduation, entered the law-office of Baker and Pea- 

body, at Concord, New Hampshire. 

1854. In October, removed to Iowa, and settled first at Monona, 

Clayton County, and afterwards at Fort Atkinson, Win- 
nieshiek County. 

1855. Sunday, April i, removed to Oronoco, Minnesota. 

1856. Went to Wasioja in the same State, and engaged in the 

fiour and grain business. 

1857. Tuesday, March I, married. See below, 

1868. Removed to Mankato, Minnesota, and engaged in the sale 

of farm machinery and grain. 
1870. In September, returned to Plymouth, and entered the ser- 
vice of the United States and Canada Express Company. 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean and the A. K. E. 

Degrees received. A.B., at Bowdoin. 

Married, 1857, Tuesday, March i, at Exeter, New Hampshire, to 
Annie Esther Merrill, of Stratham, daughter of 
Phineas Merrill and Abigail (Rollins) Merrill, by the 
Reverend Mr. Cummings, of Exeter. 

Child. Frank Woodbury Langdon, born Thursday, November 25, 
1858, at Wasioja, Minnesota. 



WILLIAM MILTIMORE McARTHUR. 

Born, 1832, Saturday, July 7, at Limington, Maine. Second son 

and child of Arthur and Sarah Prince (Miltimore) 

McArthur. 
1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at North 

Yarmouth Academy, under the Reverend Samuel Howard 

Shepley, D.D. 
1853-59, In the law-office of his father, at Limington. 



6o Boblroin (^alltpfe. 

i860. Admitted to the bar. 

1861-66. In the military service of the United States. Septem- 
ber, 1861, was mustered in as captain in the Eighth 
Maine Volunteers, and was successively promoted to be 
major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the same regi- 
ment. Was brevetted brigadier-general, Monday, March 
13, 1865, for "gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle 
of Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864, and in the action of Wil- 
liamsburg Road, October 27, 1864," and also " for meri- 
torious services during the war." At the close of the 
war, his regiment was retained one year in service (till 
February, 1866), after which he returned to Limington, 
and engaged in the practice of law. 

1867. Representative in the legislature of Maine. 

1869. Member of the State Senate. 
College Societies. Member of the Peucinian. 
Degrees received. A.B., at Bowdoin, in course. 
Unmarried. 



JOSEPH McKEEN. 

Born, 1832, Monday, October 15, at Brunswick. Eldest son and 

second child of Joseph and Elizabeth Farley McKeen. 

1849. Entered Freshman, having pursued his preparatory studies 

at Brunswick (under Alfred W. Pike), at Andover (under 

Samuel H. Taylor), and at the Topsham Academy. 

1853. Remained in Brunswick after graduation. 

1855. Attended medical lectures in New York. 

1856. Wednesday, July 23, removed to Topsham. 

1862. In the fall stationed at Fairfax, Virginia, as surgeon in 

the general hospital. For marriage, see below. 
1863-73. In Topsham, practicing medicine. 
College Societies. Member of the Peucinian and J. A. (JJ. Societies, 

and of the Granite Club. 
Degrees received. A.B. (Bowdoin, 1853), A.M. (Bowdoin, 1856), 

-M.D. (Bowdoin, 1856). 
Married, 1862, Wednesday, March 12, at Topsham, to Frances 
Caroline Chase, daughter of Smith and Tamson 
Chase, by the Reverend Daniel Fox Potter, all of that 
place. 
Ch!|d. Sarah Jewett, born at Topsham, Thursday, April 16, 1863. 



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KINGMAN FOGG PAGE. 



Born, 183 1, Monday, October 10, at Rochester, New Hampshire. 
Second son and fourth child of Benjamin and Huldah 
(Hussey) Page. 
1849. Entered Freshman, having pursued his preparatory studies 
at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. 

1853. After graduation, taught in the Sherwood Institute, at 

York, Pennsylvania, as professor of Greek and Latin, 
from September to December. In the latter month, 
removed to Washington, District of Columbia. 

1854. Professor of Greek, Latin, and Mathematics in the Rugby 

Institute, Washington, and in a school at Alexandria. 
Studied law under the Honorable Caleb Gushing, and 
was admitted to the bar. Appointed by President 
Pierce special attorney for the Department of the 
Interior. 

1855. In the pension office of the War Department. 

1858. Resigned, and engaged in business in Baltimore and Wash- 
ington as a government contractor. 
1864. Removed to Tarrytown, New York, where he built and 

sold houses, etc. 
1866. Removed to New York city, and entered into partnership, 
as a real-estate agent and contractor, with Mr. Robert 
McCafferty^ under the firm-name of Page and McCaf- 
ferty. 
College Societies. Member of the Peucinian, the z/. K. E., and the 

Granite Club. (President of the last.) 
Degrees received. A.B. and A.M., from Bowdoin, in course. 
Married, 1856, Thursday, December 25, at Washington, District of 
Columbia, to Caroline Grace Marshall, daughter of 
William and Caroline (Downes) Marshall, by the Rever- 
end Byron Sunderland, all being of that city. 
Children, (i.) Annie Grace, born in Washington, Wednesday, March 
30, 1859. 
(2.) Caroline Marshall, born in Washington, Monday, 

June 10, 1861. 
(3.) Kingman Benjamin, born in Washington, Sunday, 
February 14, 1864. 



62 BobJliain ColUfle. 

(4.) Harry Percy, born in New York, Sunday, July 29, 
1866 ; died Tuesday, February 19, 1867 ; buried at 
Woodlawn Cemetery. 

(5.) Blanche, born in New York, Monday, July 27, 1868. 

(6.) Florence, born in New York, Thursday, March 2, 
1871. 



DAVID MARKS PLACE. 

Born, 1832, Saturday, February 4, at Strafford, New Hampshire. 
Ninth and youngest son and child of Enoch and Sally 
(Demeritt) Place. 

1849. Entered Freshman, his preparatory studies having been 
pursued at Strafford, under the direction of Porter S. 
Burbank. 

1853. After graduating, engaged in the dry-goods business in 
Boston. 

1861. Saturday, November 19, enlisted in Company C, Thirty- 
second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. 

1864. Friday, January i, re-enlisted in the same regiment. 

1865. Thursday, June 29, discharged from service, with the 

regiment. 

1866. Re-engaged in the dry-goods business in Boston. 
187 1. Became book-keeper, Central Market, Lynn. 

College Societies. Member of the Peucinian. 
Degrees received. A.B. (Bowdoin), i853- 
Unmarried. 



JEREMIAH EVARTS POND. 

Born, 1 83 1, Thursday, June 23, at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. 
Third son and sixth child of Enoch Pond and Julia 
■ Ann (Maltby) Pond. 
1849. Entered from Bangor, with the Class, having fitted for 
college at that place, under George W. Field. 

1853. After graduating, entered the Bangor Theological Seminary. 

1854. Taught an academy at Lincoln, Maine. 

1855. Taught an academy at St. Stephen, New Brunswick. 



Class 0f 1853. 63 

1856. Graduated from the Bangor Seminary. 

1857. Went to sea for the benefit of his health. 

1858. Ordained pastor of the Trinitarian Congregational Church 

at Neenah, Wisconsin. Thursday, March 18, married. 
See below. 
1 86 1. Dismissed from Neenah, and installed at Platteville, Wis- 
consin, where, for nearly twelve years, he was engaged in 
steady and hard work, which prospered under his hands, 
the church being largely built up, and a new house 
erected in 1869. 

187 1. Sunday, March 5, his wife died in giving birth to twins, 

who soon followed her to the other world. 

1872. Dismissed from Platteville j Friday, November i, settled 

in Hampden, Maine. 
College Societies. Member of the Athenaean and ^^. T. Societies, 

of the Scott and Graham Club, and of the Praying Circle. 
Degrees received. A.B., at Bowdoin. 
Married, 1858, Thursday, March 18, at Portsmouth, Ohio, to Jane 

Wilson Baird, daughter of William and Julia Ann 

(Baldwin) Baird, by the Reverend E. P. Pratt, D.D.; 

all of that place. 

Mrs. Pond died at Platteville, Wisconsin, in childbed, 

Sunday, March 5, 1871. Buried in Platteville. 
Children, (i.) William Baird Pond, born at Neenah, Wisconsin, 

Monday, March 14, 1859. 
(2.) Elizabeth Maltby Pond, born at Neenah, Wisconsin, 

Thursday, October 25, i860. 
(3.) Enoch Pond, born at Platteville, Wisconsin, Thursday, 

July 31, 1862. 
(4.) Russel Tewksbury Pond, born at Platteville, Monday, 

February i, 1864 j died at Platteville, Friday, October 

13, 1865, of dysentery. Buried there. 
(5.) Sarah Jeanie Pond, born at Platteville, Wisconsin, 

Friday, August 24, 1866. 
(6.) Evarts Wilson Pond, born at Platteville, Wisconsin, 

Thursday, March 18, 1869. 
(7.) Jeanie May Pond, born at Platteville, Wisconsin, Sun- 
day, March 5, 187 1 ; died at Platteville, May 30, 187 1. 

Buried there. 
(8.) Annie Mason Pond, born at Platteville, Wisconsin, 

Sunday, March 5, 187 1 j died at Platteville, July 31, 

187 1. Buried there. 



64 BohJlioin College* 



* LUTHER PUFFER. 

" Thy leaf has perished in the green, 

And, while we breathe beneath the sun, 
The world, which credits what is done. 
Is cold to all that might have been." — Tennyson, /« Mem., Ixxiv. 

Born, 1833, Wednesday, September 11, at Sudbury, Massachusetts. 
Eldest son and child of Samuel Puffer and Laura 
Adna (Hayden) Puffer, his wife. 
1850. Entered Sophomore, having pursued his preparatory 
studies at Sanbornton Bridge, New Hampshire, and at 
Andover, New Hampshire. 

1853. After graduation, taught a high school for boys, in Gorham, 

Maine, for one term. 

1854. Entered the law-office of J. W. Butterfield, at Andover, 

New Hampshire. 

Died, 1854, Friday, October 27, at Grafton, New Hampshire, of a 
very virulent attack of small-pox, after a sickness of 
only ten days, aged twenty-one years, one month, and six- 
teen days. Buried at Grafton. 

College Societies. Member of the Athensean and the /I. K. E., and 
of the Free-soil Club. 

Degrees received. A.B., at Bowdoin, in course. 



The following brief account of Puffer's sickness and death is 
extracted from a letter sent to " The Concord Patriot " on the 23d of 
October, 1854, by N. G. Ladd, M.D., of Sanbornton Bridge, New 
Hampshire, who was his attending physician : — 

*' A short time since, a young lady from Thetford, Vermont, by the name of 
Nellie White, formerly a music-teacher in the academy at Andover, New Hamp- 
shire,was attacked with small-pox in Boston, Massachusetts, and, before she was free 
from the disease, started for home in the cars. When she arrived at Andover, 
several of her former associates accosted her, and stepped into the car and rode 
with her to the next station, the Potter Place. Among them was Mr. Luther Puffer, 
a law-student in the office of Messrs. Butterfield and Hamlin, as promising and 
talented a young man, perhaps, as can be found in this part of the state ; also a 
young man by the name of Hastings, a student of Andover Academy ; another 
by the name of P'ellows, a student of Dartmouth College ; and the Reverend Mr. 
Wait, of West Andover ; all of whom took the contagion. Poor I'uffer died 
on the evening of the 27th instant, after being sick about eleven days. His disease 
was of the confluent kind, and the eruption was so abundant as almost entirely to 
destroy the functions of the skin ; and he died of congestion of the lungs." 



Class of 1853* 65 



THADDEUS ROBERTS SIMONTON. 

Born, 1829, Sunday, September 27, at Camden, Maine. Second son 
and fifth child of William Simonton and Elizabeth 
Roberts Simonton. 
1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at Belfast, 
Maine, under the Reverend George Field and other prin- 
cipals of Belfast Academy. 

1853. After graduation, commenced the study of law with the 

Honorable Nehemiah Abbot, at Belfast. 

1854. Admitted to practice at the September Term of the Su- 

preme Judicial Court. 

1855. Formed a law partnership with the Honorable E. K. 

Smart. 

1856. Married, October 29. See below. 

1859, Finding himself more of a Republican than Democrat, 
changed his political associations, and wrote a letter, 
which was published in " The Progressive Age," showing 
the reasons for the step he had taken. 

i860. March. Appointed by Governor Lot M. Morrill county 
attorney of the new county of Knox. Took a very 
active part in the political campaign, making, in Waldo, 
Knox, and Penobscot Counties, some twenty-five speeches. 
His first Republican speech (in which he related his 
" political experience ") was made June 7, at the State 
Convention at Bangor. Was a candidate for county 
attorney, but was defeated, with the rest of the Repub- 
lican ticket, though running fifty-nine votes ahead of it 
in Camden. 

1861. In June was appointed deputy collector of customs for the 
port of Camden. 

1866. At the Republican Convention at Bangor, in 1866, took a 

very active part in securing the nomination of General 
Joshua L. Chamberlain as governor. Thursday, Novem- 
ber I, removed from the office of deputy collector by 
Secretary McCuUoch for opposition to President John- 
son's political policy. 

1867. Re-appointed Friday, April 5. Unanimously nominated by 

the Republicans of Camden for representative to the 
State legislature, but defeated by a majority of twenty- 
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66 530bjlr0in <2rallegr» 

seven votes, — a result caused, in part, by the fact of his 

holding a government office. 
College Societies. Member of the Peucinian, of the J. K. E., and 

of the Granite Club. 
Degrees received. A.B. and A.M., at Bowdoin, in course. 
Married, 1856, Wednesday, October 29, at Topsham, to Josephine 

Hall, daughter of Joseph Hall and Nancy Johnson 

(WiNSLOw) his wife, by the Reverend John Wilde, D.D., 

of Brunswick. 
Children, (i.) Annie Winslow, born Wednesday^ November 10, 1858, 

at Camden. 
(2.) Joseph Hall, born Saturday, August 17, 1861, at 

Camden. 



* JOHN BARRETT SOUTHGATE. 

" ; Quanto nao devia ser feliz e tranquilla esta morte, tendo-lhe precedido 
huma vida tao Christa e ajustada ! " — Mendo Trigozo, Eloo-. Hist, de Joao de 
Souza. 

Born, 1833, Thursday, July 25, at Portland. Eighth son and four- 
teenth child of Horatio Southgate and Eliza (Neal) 
Southgate (the third wife of Horatio Southgate). John 
Barrett Southgate was her fourth son and eighth child. 
1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at Portland, 
under Joseph Libby, and at Yarmouth Academy, under 
Allen H. Weld. 

1853. At home, in Portland and in Scarborough, through the 

winter. Became a candidate for holy orders in the 
diocese of Maine. 

1854. Monday, October 2, entered the General Theological 

Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New 
York City. 

1855. - Pursuing his studies at the Theological Seminary. 

1856. Still at the seminary. At the Commencement at Bowdoin, 

delivered the English oration as candidate for the degree 
of Master of Arts. 

1857. Wednesday, June 24, graduated at the General Theological 

Seminary. Wednesday, July 8, was ordained a deacon 



Class 0f 1853. 67 

at Saint Luke's Church, Portland, by Bishop Burgess, 
assisted in the services by Bishop Kip, of California, 
and by Bishop Southgate, a brother of John Barrett 
Southgate. In August he entered upon his duties as the 
rector of Trinity Parish, Lewiston. 

1858. Resigned the rectorship at Lewiston in the latter part of 

June, and was placed in charge of a mission at Hallowell, 
which was afterwards organized as Saint Matthew's 
Church. In December he was appointed a missionary to 
China by the Foreign Committee of the Board of Mis- 
sions of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; but, owing to 
failing health, and the unwillingness of his mother to 
part with him, — ■ her own health being very delicate at 
the time, — he soon afterwards abandoned his purpose of 
going thither. 

1859. Relinquished the charge of the mission at Hallowell soon 

after May 22. Sunday, March 20, ordained to the 
priesthood in Saint Luke's Church, Portland, by Bishop 
Burgess. Had charge of Saint John's Church, Wheeling, 
Virginia, for about six months. 
1860-61. The greater portion of these two years was spent 
at his father's in Scarborough. He had charge, during 
a considerable portion of the time, of Trinity Church, 
Saco. During the winter of 1861-62 his health and 
strength failed very rapidly. 
1862. Friday, February 7, he died of consumption, at Scar- 
borough, aged twenty-eight years, six months, thirteen 
days. He was buried at Portland, and was subsequently 
removed to the burial-ground in Scarborough. 

College Societies, Member of the Athenaean and ^^\ T. Societies, 
and of the Scott and Graham Chib. 

Degrees received. A.B., 1853; A.M., 1856 ; — both from Bowdoin. 

Unmarried. 

An obituary notice of Southgate was published in the New York 
" Church Journal " of February 19, 1862 ; and there was probably 
one in the Boston " Christian Witness " of about the same date. 

At the meeting of the Class, in 1868, at Brunswick, a very just 
and discriminative sketch of Southgate's life and character, written 
by Spaulding, was read by Goodenow, the secretary; and from this 
the following passages are extracted : — 



68 BoJ»tiotn €alU$t. 

*' Mr. Southgate spent the first year after graduation at his home in Scar- 
borough, in a course of study preparatory to entering the Theological School. 
During this time he acquired considerable knowledge of Hebrew, and read very 
critically the more difficult parts of the Greek Testament. He entered the 
General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New 
York, in the fall of«i854, and completed the course of study in that institution 
with great credit in 1857. Here he studied with special interest the subjects of 
Biblical criticism and literature, and of ecclesiastical and doctrinal history, 
profiting beyond most others in the use of the valuable seminary library. He 
also read, thought, and wrote much on subjects outside of, or remotely connected 
with, the seminary curriculum. At graduation, he was, beyond question, the 
most learned man and the finest writer and thinker of his Class. . . . 

"The writer knew him intimately from the fall term of the Freshman Year. 
He was then full of life, enthusiasm, and genius. He seemed, at times, 
almost wild and reckless. Still as he was among the foremost in fun and 
jollity, so, also, in studies and literary effort. The afflictions of his Senior Year 
(the sudden loss of brother and sisters, and his own sickness), in which we all 
gave him our deepest sympathy, wrought a remarkable change in his life and 
character. He was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in the early summer. 
Some of us will remember having witnessed the ceremony. From that time, he 
never faltered in his Christian profession. Never was there seen a more 
splendid illustration of the triumph of grace over nature, never a more beauti- 
ful development of the loveliest Christian virtues. He accomplished his work 
early ; and, when most men are just beginning to live, he was ripe for heaven. 

" It is truly wonderful how much he did, considering his feeble health, during 
his few short years. His ministry was not indeed brilliant. From physical 
infirmity, he was' not able to deliver his sermons with great effectiveness ; but 
they were masterpieces in their way, — deeply devout, eminently scriptural, rich 
in the results of study and experience, full of the poetry of genius. . . • 
While neglecting no parish duty, spending part of each day in parochial visiting, 
his studies were laborious and incessant, till failing health compelled a relaxa- 
tion. He read critically the entire Hebrew Bible, and became as familiar with 
all its parts as the clergy in general are with the Greek Gospels and Epistles. 
He read much of SS. Cyprian, Jerome, Chrysostom, and the entire works of 
Saint Augustine, in the originals. He was conversant with the progress of thought 
in its various departments, theological, scientific, philosophical. He also culti- 
vated general literature. 

** It is a hard thing for a young man of such promise, so ripe in the fruits of 
study and culture, to renounce all his youthful hopes of eminent usefulness in 
the grandest profession of life. But the call of the Master found him ready. 
Having been faithful in his generation, he was * gathered to his fathers, having 
the testimony of a good conscience ; in the communion of the Catholic Church ; 
in the confidence of a certain faith ; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, 
and holy hope ; in favor with his God, and in perfect charity with the world.' 
He lived for this. It was the end of his cares and studies. He rests from his 
labors, and his works do follow him. Let us not forget his example." 



QLlKzn oC 1853. 69 



JOHN FRANKLIN SPAULDING. 

Born, 1828, Monday, August 25, at Belgrade, Maine^ Eldest son 
and child of John Spaulding and Lydia Coombs 
Spaulding. 
1849. Entered Freshman from Camderf, having fitted for college 
at Camden, Kent's Hill (Maine Wesleyan Seminary), 
Hope, and Noith Yarmouth Academy (under the 
Reverend Samuel H. Shepley, D.D.), and chiefly at 
the latter school. 

1853. After graduating, taught school, as principal of East Pitts- 

ton Academy, Maine, one term, — from September to 
November inclusive. 

1854. Preceptor of Dennysville Academy, winter and spring 

terms. Became a candidate for holy orders in the 
diocese of Maine. Entered the General Theological 
Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York 
City, Monday, October 2. 

1857. Wednesday, June 24, was graduated from the Theological 

Seminary. Wednesday, July 8, ordained deacon by the 
Right Reverend George Burgess, in Saint Stephen's 
Church, Portland. Saturday, August i, appointed mis- 
sionary at Saint James's Church, Oldtown, Maine. 

1858. Wednesday, July 14, ordained priest by Bishop Burgess, in 

Christ Church, Gardiner. 

1859. Monday, August i, became rector of Saint George's 

Church, Lee, Massachusetts. 
i860. Thursday, November i, became assistant minister of Grace 
Church, Providence, Rhode Island. 

1 86 1. Friday, November i, the connection with Grace Church 

came to an end. Supplied Saint John's Church, Provi- 
dence, for two months or more. 

1862. Saturday, April i, became rector of Saint Paul's Church, 

Erie, Pennsylvania. 
1865. Commenced the erection of a new church edifice, built of 
stone, in the early English style of architecture, with 
sittings for eight hundred persons. Cost, $65,000. 
Monday, October 16, elected by the General Convention 
a member of the Board of Missions of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in the United States, for Western 



7o BoijjlJotn CollegE. 

Pennsylvania ; and re-elected subsequently every third 
year for the diocese of Pittsburgh. 

1866. Organized Saint John's Church, Erie. Dean of the Erie 

Convocation (to the present time). 

1867. Saint John's Church built. Cost, $5,000. 

1868. Member of the General Convention of the Episcopal 

Church whiclr met in New York. 

1869. Organized the Church of the Cross and Crown, Erie, and 

built church seating three hundred and forty persons. 

187 1. Member of the General Convention which met in Balti- 

more in October. 

1872. Built Trinity Chapel, Erie. 

College Societies. Member of the Athenasan^ ^^. T., and 0. B. K. 

Societies, and of the Granite Club. 
Degrees received. A.B. and A.M. at Bowdoin^ in course. 
Married, 1864, Monday, June 6, at Erie, Pennsylvania, to Lavinia 
Spencer, daughter of Judah Colt Spencer and Lavinia 
(Sanford) Spencer, his wife, all of Erie, by the Right 
Reverend Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania, and 
the Reverend Jonathan A. Wainwright of Salisbury 
Connecticut, now (1873) president of Saint Paul's 
College, Palmyra, Missouri. 
Children, (i.) Franklin Spencer^ born Monday, March 13, 1865, at 
Erie. 
(2.) William Marvin, born Sunday, August 26, 1866, at 

Erie. 
(3.) Elizabeth, born Wednesday, March 18, 1868, at Erie. 
(4.) John Edward, born Tuesday, September 26, 187 1, 

at Erie. 
(5.) Sarah Griswold, born Monday, December 9, 1872, at 
Erie. 



t EMERY PURINTON THOMPSON. 

Born, 1 83 1, Wednesday, August 10, at Topsham, Maine. Fourth 

son and fifth child of Charles and Ann Emery (PuRiN- 

ton) Thompson. 

1849. Entered Freshman, having pursued his preparatory studies 

at Auburn Academy (under the charge of Edward Pay- 



ADDENDUM. 

1873, Friday, October 24, Spaulding was unanimously elected Bishop of Colo- 
rado, as successor to Bishop Randall, deceased, by the House of Bishops 
assembled in Mew York City. 



Class of 1853* 71 

son Weston), at Topsham Academy (under the charge 
of Dexter ArnoU Hawkins), and as a private student 
under the direction of the Reverend Doctor Wheeler, 
of Topsham. His examination in July (which was a 
private one) preceded that of any other member of the 
Class. 

1 85 1, May. Left college on account of ill health, and went to 
Europe in company with Charles Carroll Everett, of the 
graduating class of 1850. He entered the University of 
Berlin, where he remained for some time. 

18-52. After spending some six months in Paris, and the re- 
mainder of the time in traveling, he returned home, 
arriving in November. He immediately joined the 
Sophomore Class ; and his name appears in the catalogue 
for the fall term. 

1855. Graduated. Although he did not have a "part" at Com- 

mencement, — his course having been very irregular, in 
consequence of ill health, — ■ he took high rank as a 
scholar. In the autumn he went to New Orleans, and 
thence to Europe, where he made a tour of Great Britain. 

1856. Returned home in the summer, and engaged himself deeply 

in study. 

1857. His friends were alarmed by unmistakable indications that 

his mind was giving way. 

1858. Wednesday, February 10, placed in the McLean Asylum, 

at Somerville, Massachusetts, " where he has remained 
for fifteen long and weary years, — alive, yet dead to all 
who love him." 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean and the (D. B K. 

Degrees received. A.B. at Bowdoin, in 1855. 



WILLIAM HENRY TODD. 

Born, 1832, Tuesday, June 19, at Milltown, New Brunswick. Second 
son and fifth child of William Todd and Clarissa Hill 
Todd. 
1849. Entered Freshman from Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, 
having fitted for college at North Yarmouth Academy, 
under the Reverend Doctor Samuel H. Shepley. 



72 530bjtroin Sallege. 

1853. Two weeks after graduation took steamer " Atlantic " for 

Liverpool. Arrived there in nine and a half days, after 
a pleasant passage. Went to Scotland, and matriculated 
Tuesday, November i, at the Edinburgh University, as a 
student in medicine. 

1854. In the autumn vacation took a pedestrian tour through the 

Highlands of Scotland, traveling on foot upwards of 
seven hundred miles, and by conveyances of all sorts 
upwards of two thousand. Visited lona, Staffa, and 
places interesting either from historic associations or 
natural scenery. 

1855. Visited home during the autumn vacation. Returning, 

reached Edinburgh Sunday, November i, after an ab- 
sence of some eight weeks. 

1856. At the end of the long term passed preliminary examina- 

tion (oral and written) for the degree of M.D. During 
the autumn vacation visited London and Paris, and took 
a pedestrian tour through Switzerland, returning to Edin- 
burgh in season to begin last year of study, Saturday, 
November i. 

1857. Passed examination at the Royal College of Surgeons for 

certificate for midwifery, and obtained diploma in surgery 
Friday, June 19. After a second oral and written examina- 
tion, received the degree of M.D. from the University of 
Edinburgh, Monday, August 3. Visited Ayrshire and 
the English and Irish lakes. Took passage home Satur- 
day, August 8, arriving Wednesday, August 19. Married 
Wednesday, November 4 {see below), and began practice 
in Milltown, New Brunswick. 

1858. Encountered the usual lot of doctors in small towns, — 

long drives, hard work, and poor pay. 

1859. Tuesday, November i, wife died. See below. 

1862. Removed to Saint Stephen. 

1863. Tuesday, May, 12, married a second time. See below. 
1864-66. Steadily increasing practice. 

1867. ■ Elected member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin 

College.. 

1868. Attended Commencement for the first time since gradu- 

ating, and was present at the Class meeting Wednesday, 
July 8. 
1870. Thursday, December 29, assisted in forming the " Bowdoin 



Class of X853. 73 

Association of the East," at Calais. Had supper, 
speeches, and a "good time" generally. 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean and the ^^. T. 

Degrees received, A.B. and A.M., at Bowdoin, in course ; M.D., at 
the University of Edinburgh; M.R.C.S.E. 

Married (i), 1857, Wednesday, November 4, at Milltown, New 
Brunswick, to Mary Ellen Porter, daughter of George 
Marks Porter and Mary Topliff Porter, of that place, by 
the Reverend Mr. Smithson. She died Thursday, No- 
vember I, i860, of heart-disease, and was buried in 
the Saint Stephen Rural Cemetery. 
(2), 1863, Tuesday, May 12, at Princeton, Bureau County, 
Illinois, to Hattie Topliff Houghton, of New York 
City, daughter of Joseph Houghton and Elizabeth Top- 
liff Houghton, by the Reverend Mr. Willing. 

Child. Ellen Huntington, born Tuesday, March 20, i860, at Mill- 
town, New Brunswick. 



t JOHN STACY TUCKER. 

Born, 182 1, Wednesday, July 4, at Foxcroft. Second child and 
eldest son of Doctor Aaron and Charlotte (Chamber- 
lain) Tucker. 

1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at Foxcroft 

Academy, under Samuel F. Humphrey. 

1850. Friday, April 26, left college on account of poverty. From 

that time until the present, he has pursued the occupation 
of a carpenter, residing in various places, as follows : — 

1. In Southbridge, from Sunday, April 28, 1850, to Monday, 
May 13, 1850. 

2. In Westborough, from Monday, May 13, 1850, to Satur- 
day,r April 28, 1855. 

3. In Boston, from Saturday, April 28, 1855, to Saturday, 
May I, 1858. 

4. In Westborough, from Saturday, May i, 1858, to 
Saturday, August 21, 1858. 

5. In Milford, from Saturday, August 21, 1858, to Saturday, 
June 30, i860. 

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74 BobHoin College. 

6. In Upton, from Saturday, June 30, i860, to Monday, 
February 4, 1861. 

7. In Milford, from Monday, February 4, 1861, to some 
time in June, 1861. 

8. In Upton, from some time in June, 186 1, to about the 
first of April, 1862. 

9. In Milford, from about the first of April, 1862, to Mon- 
day, May 5, 1862. 

10. In Hopkinton, Saint Lawrence County, New York, from 
Wednesday, May 7, 1862, to Monday, May 4, 1863. 

11. In Milford from Thursday, May 7, 1863, to Monday, 
May 17, 1869. 

12. In West Upton, from Monday, May 17, 1869, to the 
present date (October, 1873). 

College Societies. Member of the Athenaean and the /J.K.E, 
Unmarried. 



t NATHANIEL LORD UPHAM. 

Born, 1833, Saturday, April 27, at Concord, New Hampshire. 
Eldest son and second child of Nathaniel Gookin Upham 
and Betsey Watts Lord Upham. 

1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at Phillips 

Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, under Samuel H. 
Taylor, LL.D. 

1850. Left college at the end of the Freshman Year, and joined 

the Sophomore Class at Dartmouth. 

1853. Graduated from Dartmouth College. In July appointed 
secretary of the Commission on Claims between the 
United States and Great Britain, which sat in London. 

1855. February; the commission closed its labors, and the secre- 
taryship came to an end. In the autumn entered the 
- Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts. 

1858. Graduated from the seminary. Supplied for three months 

the pulpit of the Congregational church at Manchester, 
Bennington County, Vermont. 

1859. Continued supply of, and received a call to, the church 

at Manchester. Ordained Thursday, March 10. 



(BUss of 1853. 



75 



1861. Wednesday, June 5, married. See below. Wednesday, 

November 6, dismissed from his pastoral charge. 

1862. Sunday, October 19, began to supply the pulpit of the Pres" 

byterian church at Flemington, New Jersey. 

1863. Monday, October 19, appointed chaplain of the Thirty-fifth 

New Jersey Veteran Infantry for three years' service. 
Sunday, October 25, engagement with the church at 
Flemington terminated. Friday, October 30, joined the 
Army of the Potomac, and was transferred to the Army 
of the Tennessee. 

1864. With General Andrew Jackson Smith up and down the 

Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers ; and with Sherman 
from Vicksburg to Meridian and back ; at the siege of 
Atlanta ; and on the march to the sea. 

1865. Wednesday, February 15, mustered out of the service at 

Beaufort, South Carolina. Accepted a call to the Pres- 
byterian church at Reaville, New Jersey. Installed 
Tuesday, June 13. 
187 1. Wednesday, October 18, dismissed from his charge at 
Reaville, in consequence of a sunstroke and its effects. 

College Societies. Member of the Atheneean and the J. K. E , and 
of the Praying Circle. [At Dartmouth, a member of the 
Social Friends, the K. K. K, and the 0. B. K] 

Degrees received. A.B. and A.M., at Dartmouth, in course. 

186 1, Monday, June 3, at Kingston, New Jersey, to 
Anna Howell Janeway, daughter of the Reverend 
Doctor Thomas Leiper Janeway and Abby Howell Jane- 
way, of that place, by the Reverend Doctor Janeway. 

(i.) Bessie Lord Janeway, born Tuesday, May 6, 1862 ; 
died Tuesday, May 20, 1862. 

(2.) Anna Janeway, born Friday, April 3, 1863, at Tren- 
ton, New Jersey. 

(3.) Nathaniel Janeway, born Monday, August 28, 1865, ^t 

Reaville, New Jersey. 
(4.) Lillian Howell Janeway, born Monday, September 2, 

1867, at Reaville, New Jersey. 

(5.) Thomas Francis Janeway, born Thursday, September 

30, 1869, at Reaville, New Jersey. 
(6.) John Howell Janeway, born Friday, August 11, 187 1, 

at Trenton, New Jersey. 



76 38obJl(0tn GToIIege. 



*tWILLIAM WALKER. 

" Tempore longa tibi noli promittere vitae : 
Quocunque ingrederis, sequitur mors, corpus ut umbra.'* 

Catullus, Dist. iv. 25. 

Born, 1828, Friday, January 4, at Barnstead, New Hampshire. 
Second son and third child of Joseph Alcott Walker and 
Abigail Wiggin (Murray) Walker. 

1849. Entered Freshman, having pursued his preparatory studies 

at Gilmanton Academy, under the Reverend Charles 
Tenney. After remaining at Bowdoin one term only, he 
left college, partly because a near relative (Mrs. Charlotte 
M. Bowker) with whom he boarded removed from town, 
and partly because his Gilmanton classmates had gone 
to Dartmouth, and he wished to join them again. He 
entered that institution in — 

1850. and remained there through three terms, when, being 

threatened with phthisis, he left. 

185 1. In May, began the study of medicine with Albert Gallatin 

Weeks, M.D., of Barnstead. Attended lectures at the 
Dartmouth Medical School during the same year. 

1852. Studied with Ira Russell, M.D., of Winchendon, Massa- 

chusetts, until October, when he went to the Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in 

1853. settling immediately in Barnstead, and acquiring a good 

practice. 
Died, 1855, Saturday, July 14, of congestion of the lungs, aged 

twenty-seven years, six months, and ten days ; buried at 

Barnstead. 
College Societies. Member of the A. K. E. Fraternity. 
Married, 1854, Thursday, September 14, by the Reverend Enos 

George of Barnstead, to Augusta Webster, daughter 

of the Honorable Samuel Webster and Lois (Smith) 

Webster, of the same place. 
Children. None. 



ClaiBS of X853* 77 



* FRANCIS EVERETT WEBB. 

" Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man 
hath obtained worthy ends and expectations." — Bacon, Essays. Of Death. 

Born, 1829, Friday, March 13^ at Winthrop, Maine. Fifth and 
yeungest son and child of Samuel Webb and Olive 
Lambert Webb, his wife. 
1849. Entered Freshman, having fitted for college at Augusta, 
under Professor Jotham Sewall. 

1854. Tutor of the Sturtevant heirs in Philadelphia. Tutor at 

Bowdoin. 

1855. Tutor at Bowdoin. 

1856. Admitted to the Kennebec bar. Much interested in edu- 

cation. Chosen school-director, and re-elected most of 
the time until 1869. 

1861. Member of the house of representatives of the legislature 

of Maine. 

1862. Elected town-treasurer of Winthrop, and re-elected annually 

until 1869. 

1865. Member of the lower house of the legislature of Maine. 

1866, 67. State bank commissioner. 

1869. Elected representative to State legislature, and at the 
same time county attorney for the county of Kennebec, 
which latter office he declined on account of ill health. 

Died, 1869, Saturday, November 20, at half-past five, a.m., of heart 
disease. He was buried in Winthrop on Tuesday, No- 
vember 23, with Masonic honors. 

College Societies. Member of the Peucinian, ^^. T., <t>. B. K. So- 
cieties, and of the Scott and Graham Club. 

Degrees received. A.B. and A.M. at Bowdoin, in course. 

Married, 1858, Thursday, May 27, at Hallowell, to Mary Frances 

(Dwight) Richmond, daughter of Joseph Cutler 

Dwight and Mary Moore (Farrell) Dwight, by the 

Reverend Mr. Felch, all of that place. 

(i.) Mary Everett, born Saturday, January 11, 1862, in 

Winthrop. 
(2.) Annie Dwight, born Thursday, June 22, 1865, in 
Winthrop. 



78 Bobjtioin College. 

In "The Lewiston Journal," of November 25, 1869, a corres- 
pondent writing from Winthrop, November 20, says of Webb, — 

" He had been in his accustomed health, and spent the previous evening at a 
neighbor's, in his usual good humor and sociability. He awoke at half-past four 
in the morning with a severe pain in his right side, and died before his friends 
and relatives could be summoned to the scene of death." 

In the same paper, for December 2, his pastor, the Reverend 
Edward P. Baker, wrote of him, — 

" His departure has affected many interests, and touched many hearts. The 
idol of his own and the stay and support of other households, a much-beloved 
Sunday-school teacher, a steady and hearty supporter of gospel institutions, a 
school-director and the town-treasurer, a brother of high mark in the Masonic 
fraternity, a lawyer surrounded by a numerous clientage, an honored member of 
the Kennebec bar, and, at the time of his decease, county attorney, and member 
of the legislature elect, he occupied a large place among us. His departure has 
left a chasm very hard to fill. And he was all this amid much bodily infirmity. 
With the relentless hand of disease fastened upon him, he has felt unequal, in 
many cases, to the burdens and cares of public life ; has generally accepted 
offices only with reluctance, and has won almost invariably unsought honors. 
He has supposed for years that an early and probably sudden death awaited him, 
and has repeatedly declared that his ambition was not for the present life, but 
rather to do good, and prepare for the life to come. 

" In boyhood especially beloved by his mother (for between mother and son 
there subsisted an unusual strength of affection, which increased even with 
advancing years) ; in youth graduating kt Bowdoin with high honors, and subse- 
quently a tutor there ; in manhood, a rising member of the Kennebec bar, and 
twice elected to the legislature, — his outer life, indeed, presents a record of 
spotless honor ; but then his inner life, as his intimate friends well know, 
could it be laid bare, would present a much finer record. Of a reserved tem- 
perament and a retiring disposition, he was far more than he seemed, 

" He lived, to a certain extent, a hidden life. He appeared to the casual 
observer to be only a moral man ; but there was really much of spirituality in 
him. He had a deep reverence for God, and a hearty love for divine truth. He 
was a constant student of the Bible. He loved to teach in the sabbath school. 
Thouo"h he never said he was a Christian, yet his intimate friends have felt, that, 
in this regard, his deeds spoke louder than his words, and that he had the power, 
though not the form, — the substance, though not the sign." 

In the house of representatives at Augusta, John May, Esq., of 
Winthrop, on the 12th of January, 1870, announced the death of 
M. Webb, and paid a just tribute to his memory, some portions 
of which are subjoined : — 

" He was the youngest son of a large family of children, and was eleven years 
of age at the death of his father, whose estate was rendered insolvent. With 



Class of X853. 79 

no capital but his head and hands, stern necessity required him to labor for his 
daily subsistence, snatching, at intervals, time for study. For a boy he was 
uncommonly studious, and manifested a great desire for knowledge. On the 
farm, with his brothers, and in the workshop of the mechanic, he labored for 
several years, attending school at the village a portion of the time. By his rapid 
progress in his studies he became a marked scholar, whereby he was enabled, in 
a brief period, to procure a situation as an assistant teacher in Cony Female 
Academy, in Augusta, then under the charge of Professor Sewall, now of Bow- 
doin College. . . . Under his eye, and urgent solicitation, together with th-e 
assistance of that gentleman, he was induced to enter college, and subsequently 
entered Bowdoin in the class of 1849, ^-nd graduated, as I am informed, with the 
highest honors, in 1853. ... In 1854-55, he was tutor of Greek in that insti- 
tution, and, had he continued there, would have been promoted in due time to a 
professorship. 

" Choosing the law for a profession, he entered and fitted himself in the office 
of Judge May, in Winthrop, and was admitted to practice at the Kennebec bar 
in 1856. His modest and unassuming manners soon won for him the admiration 
of all its members, and the respect of the court. . . . 

'* By strict economy and untiring industry he managed to remunerate his 
friends for every dollar they advanced towards his education, and soon raised 
himself from the more humble condition of his early years, beyond, almost, the 
possibility of want. Emphatically he was ' the architect of his own fortune.' . . . 

" Knowing his qualifications for the duties of the position, his friends sought 
for him senatorial honors, and in his failure were somewhat disappointed ; but 
not so with him. His words were, ' My ambition for this world is only to do 
good, aiid prepare for the life to come.' It is not my purpose, neither would his 
spirit, could it .dictate, allow me, to touch a single inharmonic chord ; for with 
him all things were attuned to harmony. In the silence of the grave, passion 
is hushed. 

" As a legal counselor, he was eminent in his profession ; as an advocate, he 
was reserved and diffident. He possessed a keen intellect and a well balanced 
mind, and, when aroused, seldom failed of convincing his auditors of the just- 
ness of his cause. Although he earned his bread by his profession, he strove to 
discourage litigation, ever counseling his clients to reconcile their differences, 
if possible, with their adversaries. Peace seemed to be his leading desire. 

" Mr. Speaker, whilst you and I claimed him for our personal friend, true 
and steadfast, he was no less a friend to humanity. He was a congenial com- 
panion, a profound scholar, and, within the circle of his acquaintance, universally 
beloved. His sparkling wit and repartee, his social bearing and keen percep- 
tion, made him the favorite of his townsmen. He was no bigot in his opinions ; 
a liberal supporter of religious and literary institutions, a prominent teacher in 
the sabbath school ; and, though belonging to no church, no one doubted his 
Christianity." 

Mr. Baker, of Augusta, said it had been his good fortune intimately to know 
Mr. Webb ever since he came to the Kennebec bar ; that he had often been asso- 
ciated with him in cases in court, and had opportunity to study and admire him. 
Mr. Webb was highly cultivated, had good legal attainments, a strong and dis- 
criminating mind, sound judgment, and great breadth of comprehension; which 



8o Bobtioin College, 

eminently fitted him for the practical duties of public and private life. He 
lacked but one element of character to make a most successful and potential 
man, and that was his excessive modesty, and distrust of his own powers. This 
often kept him from occupying positions which he was abundantly able to fill, 
and which would have made his abilities better known and appreciated in the 
community. But the crowning glory of his character was his simple truthful- 
ness, honesty, and unbending integrity, which scorned every trick, subterfuge, 
or wrong, in public or private. He could always be trusted, without fear of 
betrayal. It was this that endeared him to his townsmen and friends, and has 
embalmed him in their hearts and memories for ever. 

On motion of Mr. Farwell, as a further token of respect to the memory of 
the deceased, the house then adjourned. 



WILLIAM ADOLPHUS WHEELER. 

Born, 1833, Friday, November 14, at Leicester, Massachusetts. 
Second son and cliild of Amos Dean Wheeler and 
Louisa AmeHa (Warren) Wheeler. 
1849. Entered college from Topsham (" as emerald a Freshman " 
as one would wish to see), having pursued his preparatory- 
studies under his father's direction and at the Topsham 
Academy. 

1853. After graduating, taught school (two terms) in Marl- 

borough, Massachusetts. 

1854. Taught, for one term, in the spring, an academy at North- 

field, Massachusetts. In the fall became preceptor 
of the Partridge Academy, Duxbury, Massachusetts. 

1856. In May resigned, and removed to Cambridge, to assist 

Doctor Worcester in the preparation of his Quarto Dic- 
tionary. Married July 13. See below. 

1857. Prepared (in conjunction with Mr. Richard Soule) a 

spelling-book, which is extensively used under the name 
of Worcester's. 

i860. Removed to Duxbury. During the summer accepted a 
> proposition from the publishers of Webster's Dictionary 
to assist in the revision of that work. 

1 86 1. Published, as joint author with Mr. Richard Soule, a 
" Manual of English Pronunciation and Spelling." In 
the spring removed to New Haven to assist President 
Porter in the final preparation of Webster's Dictionary 



eUss of X853. 8i 

for the press. In November removed to Harrison 
Square, Dorchester, Massachusetts, to supervise the 
printing of the^work. 
1864-65. Prepared for the press (and published in the latter year) 
a " Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction," which 
had previously appeared, in a less full form, in Webster's 
Dictionary. Friday, March 31, 1865, removed to Rox- 
bury. 

1866. Edited, for the Messrs. Hurd and Houghton of New York, 

a reprint (with additions and alterations) of Hole's 
" Brief Biographical Dictionary." 

1867. Tuesday, April 23, removed to Dorchester (School Street). 

Prepared for G. and C. Merriam of Springfield " The 
National Dictionary," an octavo abridgment of Web- 
ster's larger dictionary ; also entirely new revisions of 
the smaller or school editions. 

1868. Wednesday, April i, became connected with the Boston 

Public Library, and in November was chosen assistant 
superintendent (with the especial charge of the cata- 
logue department) ; which position he still holds. 

1869. Published (New York : Hurd and Houghton) a sumptuous 

edition, in quarto, of " Mother Goose's Melodies," with 
antiquarian and philological notes, and an account of 
the Goose or Vergoose family, of Boston, from one mem- 
ber of which the work derived its name. 

187 1. Tuesday, March 28, removed to Roxbury (Boston High- 

lands). 

1872. Published (Boston : J. R. Osgood and Company) a 

" Dickens Dictionary," which bears the name of Gilbert 
A. Pierce on the title-page as the chief author, but of 
which scarcely any thing more than the copyright and 
the general plan is his. 

1873. At present engaged in the preparation of a new edition of 

Webster's Quarto Dictionary, and in the collection of 
' materials for a " Cyclopaedia of Shakesperian Literature," 
to be edited on the general plan of Smith's Dictionary 
of the Bible. Has nearly ready for the press an index 
to the more noted works in ancient and modern litera- 
ture, entitled " Who Wrote It ? " which is to be published 
by the Messrs. Lee and Shepard of Boston. 

II 



82 BobjUoin €a\Ust, 

College Societies. Member of the Athensean, of the J. K. E., and of 
the Granite Club. In 1873, elected a member of the 
(D. B. K. Fraternity. 
Degrees received. A.B. (Bowdoin, 1853) ; A.M. (Bowdoin, 1856 j 

and Harvard, honorary, 187 1). 
Married, 1856, Sunday, July 13, at Duxbury, Massachusetts, by the 
Reverend Josiah Moore, to Olive Winsor Frazar, 
daughter of Samuel Alden Frazar and Maria (Winsor) 
Frazar, all of that place. 
Children, (i.) Alice Winsor, born in Cambridge, Thursday, De- 
cember 1,0, 1858, at 6.30, A.M. 
(2.) Walter Kendall, born in Duxbury, Friday, October 

19, i860, at 4, P.M. 
(3.) Edith Frazar, born in Dorchester (Harrison Square), 

Monday, January 12, 1863, at 8.30, a.m. 
(4.) Alvaro Santos, born in Roxbury, Tuesday, August i, 

1865, at 9, P.M. 
(5.) Ethel Deering, born in Dorchester, Thursday, Sep- 
tember 24, 1868, at 5, P.M. 



Ill 

STATISTICAL 



"Tantutn series juncturaque pollet." — Horace, De Arte Poetica, 243. 

" To your audit comes 
Their distract parcels in combined sums." — Shakespeare, Lover's Complaint. 

"All things in order stored." — Tennyson, Palace of Art, 87. 



STATISTICS. 



I.— ROLL OF THE CLASS, 



With their place of residence while in college, and the present (1873) 

addresses of living members. 

"Unbaked and doughy youth." —Shakespeare, All^s IVell that Ends Well, iv. 5. 
" Full and ripened years " — Shakespeare, Richard III, ii. 3. 



[Names of clergymen are in Italic type.] 



Adams, yonathan Edwards, 
*tBarton, Oliver Patten, 
Carruthers, William, 
tCrosby, John Leland, 
Cummings, Ephraim Chamberlain, 
tCummings, Ralph Wardlaw, 
Downes, Henry Richards, 
Drew, William Paley, 
*tDrummond, Charles, 
Emery, James Wallace, 
Emery, Marcellus, 
Foss, Stephen, 
Fuller, Melville Weston, 
Goodenow, Henry Clay, 
^Kidder, yames Holwell, 
*Kimball, George Stone, 
Langdon, Woodbury Fogg, 
McArthur, William Miltimore, 
McKeen, Joseph, 

Page, Kingman Fogg, 

Place, David Marks, 

Pond, yeremiah Evarts, 

*Puffer, Luther, 

Simonton, Thaddeus Roberts, ' 

'^Southgate, yohn Barrett, 



Deer Isle, 

Waterville. 

Portland, 

Bangor, 

Albany, 

Portland, 

Calais, 

Augusta, 

Bangor. 

Lovell, 

Frankfort, 

Braintree, Boston, Mass. 

Augusta, 

Alfred, 

Portland, 

Gardiner ; Farmingdale. 

Plymouth, N.H., 

Limington, 

Brunswick, 

Rochester, N.H., 

Strafford Centre, N.H., 

Bangor, 

Sudbury, Mass. 

Camden, 

Portland ; Scarborough. 



Searsport. 

Calais. 

Bangor. 

Portland, 50 Park Street. 

Minneapolis, Minn. 

Presque Isle. 

\ Washington, D.C., 

\ 7.35t corner of gth and H Sts. 

Kaufman, Kauf. Co.,Tex. 

Bangor. 

St. Mary's, Kan. 

Chicago, 111. 

Bangor. 

Owego, N.Y. 

Plymouth, N.H. 
Limington. 
Tops ham. 

< New York City, 

{ 654 sth Av., corner of 5 2d St. 

Lynn, Mass. 

Hampden. 

Camden, 



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ISoiuioin ^allege. 



Spaulding, yohn Franklin, 
t Thompson, Emery Purinton, 
Todd, William Henry, 
tTucker, John Stacy, 
] Up ham, A^athaniel Lord, 
*t Walker, William, 
*Webb, Francis Everett, 
Wheeler, William Adolphus, 



Camden, 

Topsham, 

St. Stephen, N.B,, 

Foxcroft, 

Concord, N.H., 

Barn&tead, N.H. 

Winthrop. 

Topsham, 



Erie, Penn. 
Somerville, Mass. 
St. Stephen, N.B. 
West Upton, Mass. 

Philadelphia, Penn., 

No. i8ih, above Cayuga St. 



f Boston, Mass. 
( (Public Library.) 



Note. — The wh«)le number of persons connected with the Class during the course was 33. 
The names of the following persons, who never were actually members of the Class, are entered 
on the annual catalogues as belonging to it, — (Freshman and Sophomore Years) Elijah Bartlett 
Chandler, of Bethel, Charles Addison Hill, of Sweden, Benjamin Webber Kimball, of Bethel; 
(Sophomore Year, fall term, 1850) Nathan Cutler Goodenow, of Farmington ; (Senior Year) 
George Washington McLellan, of Monmouth. The names of Hill, Goodenow, and Kimball had 
previously appeared in the catalogue as members of the Freshman class of 1848-49; while McLellan 
had figured as a member of the same class during the entire four years (1848-52) of its course, 
though he did not graduate until 1854. 



II.— PLACE OF BIRTH. 



" Where were you born, friend ? " — Shakespeare, Meas. for Meas., iii. 1. 

(a.) States. 

Maine. — Adams, *tBarton, fCrosby, Cummings (ist), tCummings (2d), Downes, 
Drew, *tDrummond, Emery (ist), Emery (2d), Foss, Fuller, Goodenow, 
*Kimball, fKidder, McArthur, McKeen, Simonton, *Southgate, Spauld- 
ing, tThompson, *Webb. — 22. 

Ne7v Hampshire. — Langdon, Page, Place, tUpham, *tWalker. — 5. 

Massachusetts. — Pond, *Pufifer, Wheeler. — 3. 

New Brunswick. — Todd. — i. 

England. — Carruthers. — i. (3 states, i province, i kingdom.) 

(b.) Towns. 

" This man was born there." — Ps. Ixxxvii. 4. 



Albany. — E. C. Cummings. — I. 
Alfred. — Goodenow. — i. 
Augusta. — Drew, Fuller. — 2. 
Bangor. — fCrosby. — i . 
Barnstead, N.H. — * t Walker. — i. 
Belgrade. — Spaulding. — i. 
Brunswick. — McKeen. — i. 
Buxton. — J. W. Emery. — i. 
Calais. — Downes. — i . 
Cambridge, Mass. — Pond. — I. 
Camden. — Simonton. — i. 



Concord, N.H. — tUpham. — i. 
Foxcroft. — tTucker. — i. 
Frankfort. — M. Emery. — i . 
Gardiner. — *Kimball. — i. 
Leicester, Mass. — Wheeler. — i. 
Limington. — McArthur. — i. 
Liverpool, Eng. — Carruthers. — i. 
Milltown, N.B. — Todd. — i. 
Nerv Portland. — Foss. — i. 
No. Yarmouth. — fR. W. Cummings. 
Phipsburg. — *tDrummond. — i. 



Class of 1853. 87 

Portland. — fKidder, *Southgate. — 2. Sudbury, Mass. — *Puffer. — i. 

Rochester, N. H. — Page. — i . Topsham. — fThomps on. — i . 

Rumney, N.H. — Langdon. — i. Winthrop. — *Webb. — i. 

Sidney. — * fBarton. — i . Woolwich. — Adams. — i. 

Strafford, N.H. — Place. — i. {31 towns.) 



III. — YEAR OF BIRTH. 

" Days and months . . . and years." — Gal. iv. 10. 

1821.— tTucker (July4). — I. 

1822. — Adams (April 29). — i. 

1825. — Foss (June 20) ; E. C. Cummings (Sept. 2). — 2. 

1828.— *t Walker (Jan. 4) ; Spaulding (Aug. 25). — 2. 

1829. — J. W. Emery (Feb. 7) ; *Webb (March 13); Simonton (Sept. 27) ; Drew 

(Nov. II). — 4. 

1830. — Langdon (Feb. i) ; M, Emery (July 24) —2, 

183 1. — Pond (June 23) ; ^fDrummond (July 11) ; f Thompson (Aug. 10) ; fKid- 

der (Oct. 9) ; Page (Oct. 10). — 5. 

1832. — Place (Feb. 4) ; * fBarton (March 8) ; Todd (June 19) ; McArthur (July 

7); fR. W. Cummings (Sept. 4); Downes (Sept. 17); McKeen (Oct. 

IS)- — 7. 

1833.— *Kimball (Jan. 2); Fuller (Feb. ii); fUpham (April 27); *Southgate 

(July 25); *Puffer (Sept. 11) ; Wheeler (Nov. 14).— 6. 
1834. — fCrosby (May 17) ; Goodenow (June 23). — 2. 
1835. — Carruthers (July 19). —-i. 



IV. — TIME OF ENTRANCE. 

" I witness to 
The times that brought them in." — Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv. i. 

At the Commencemejtt of the Course. — -Adams, Carruthers, f Crosby, Cummings 
(ist), fCummings (2d), Downes, *fDrummond, M. Emery, Fuller, Goode- 
now, *Kimball, McArthur, McKeen, Page, Place, Pond, Simonton, 
*Southgate, Spaulding, fThompson, Todd, f Tucker, fUpham, *f Walker, 
*Webb, Wheeler. — 25. 

At the Beginning of the SophojHore Year. — Drew, J. W. Emery, Foss, fKidder, 
Langdon, *Puffer. — 6. 

At the Beginiting of the Senior Year. — * fBarton. — - 1, 



88 a80inlr0in College, 



v. — AGE AT ENTRANCE. 

" In the morn and liquid dew of youth." — Shakespeare, Hamlet, i. 3. 

(a.) Of those who entered Freshmen (first recitation Monday, October i, 

1849). 
28. — tTucker (2 m. 27 d.). — i. 
27. — Adams (5 m. 2 d.). — i. 

24. — E. C. Cummings (29 d.). — i. 

21. — *tWalker (8 m. 27 d.) ; Spaulding (i m. 6 d.). — 2. 

20. — *Webb (3 m.) ; Simonton (4 d.). — 2. 

19. — M. Emery (2 m. 7 d.), — i. 

18. — Pond (3 m. 8 d.) ; *tDrummond (2 m. 19 d.) ; tThompson (i m. 21 d.). — 3. 

17. — Page (II m, 21 d.) ; Place (7 m. 27 d.) ; Todd (3 m. 12 d.) ; McArthur 

(2 m. 24 d.) ; tR. W. Cummings (27 d.) ; Downes (13 d.). — 6. 
16. — McKeen (11 m. 16 d.) ; *Kimball (8 m. 29 d.) j Fuller (7 m. 20 d.) ; fUpham 

(5 m. 4 d.) ; *Southgate (2 m. 6 d.). — 5. 
15. — Wheeler (10 m. 17 d.) ; tCrosby (4 m. 13 d.); Goodenow (3 m. 8 d.). — 3- 
l4. — Carruthers (2 m. 12 d.). — i. 

(Average age 185 years.) 

(b.) Of those who entered Sophomore (first recitation Monday, September 
30, 1850). 

25. — Foss (3 m. 10 d.). — I. 

21. — J. W. Emery (7 m. 28 d.). — i. 

20. — Drew (10 m. 19 d.) ; Langdon (8 m.). — 2. 

18. — t Kidder (11 m. 21 d.). — i. 

17. — Puffer (27 d.). — I. 

(Average age 20 years and 2 months.) 

(c.) Entered Senior (first recitation Monday, September 27, 1852). 
20. — *tBarton (6 m. 19 d,). — i. 



Class of 1853, 



89 



VI. — ROOMS AND ROOM-MATES. 



" My design 
To note the chamber : I will write all down." — Shakespeare, Cyvtheline, ii. 2. 
" I pray you, who is his companion ?" — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, i. i. 



Names. 



Freshtnan Year. 



Adams, 

* fBarton, 

Carruthers, 

t Crosby, 

Cummings, E. C. 

tCummin^s, R. W. 

Downes, 

Drew, 

*tDrummond, 

Emery, J, W. 

Emery, M. 

Foss, 

Fuller, 

Goodenow, 

tKidder,» 
*Kimball, 
Langdon, 

McArthur, 

McKeen, 

Page, 



29 A. H. 
Todd. 



II W. H. 

Pond. 

10 W. H. 
tDrummond. 

32 M. H. 
fR. W. Cummings. 

32 M. H. 

E. C. Cummings. 

6 W. H. 

Spaulding. 



Sophotnore Year. 



3A. H. 

Spaulding 



10 W. H. 

t Crosby. 



9W. H. 



12 W. H. 

19 A. H. 

Goodenow (Soph.). 



.30 A. H. 



8 A. H. 
McArthur (Senior). 

J. McKeen' s. 

16 M. H. 
tUpham. 



32 A. H. 
Pond. 

10 M. H. 
tDrummond. 

11 M. H. 

fR. W. Cummings. 

II M. H. 
E. C. Cummings. 

8W. H. 

Mr. Thompson's. 

10 M. H. 
t Crosby. 

15 M. H. 
Douglass (Fr'man). 

29 A. H. 
Ring (Fr'man). 

Mr. Tappan's. 

5 W. H. 

19 A. H. 
Goodenow (Junior). 

I A. H. 
Ware (Senior). 

6M.H. 

12 M. H. 
Puffer. 



yunior Year. 



3 A. H. 
Adams (Freshman). 



4 A. H. 
Pond. 

12 M. H. 

10 M. H. 
tDrummond. 



6A. H. 



J. McKeen' s. 

8 M. H. 
Farrington (F'man) 



Mr. Thompson's. 

10 M. H. 
E. C. Cummings. 

25 A. H. 

Simonton. 

23 A. H. 

Mr, Tappan's. 

5W. H. 
Smith (Sophomore). 

24 A. H. 
Goodenow (Senior). 



Senior Year. 



24 M. H. 
Adams (Freshman). 

28 A. H. 
Josiah L. Phillips. 

4 A. H. 

Pond. 



10 M. H. 
tDrummond. 



6A. H. 



Mr. Thompson's. 

10 M. H. 
E. C. Cummings. 

25 A. H. 
Simonton. 

23 A. H. 

Mr. T.'s; Tontine. 

22 M. H. 
Smith (Junior). 

24 A. H. 



6 M. H. 6 M. H. 

27 A. H. 26 A. H. 

Puffer. Puffer. 

Mr. Tappan's. 

J. McKeen' s. J. McKeen' s. 

8 M. H. 8 M. H. 

Farrington (Soph). Farrington (Junior). 



90 



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Natnes. 


Freshman Year. 


Place, 


13 M. H. 
tTucker. 


Pond, 


II W. H. 

Carrulhers. 


♦Puffer, 
Simonton, 




6M. H. 


*Southgate, 


32 A. H. 

Soutligate (Junior). 


Spaulding, 


6W. H. 
Downes. 


tThompson, 


C. Thompson's. 


Todd, 


29 A. H. 


tTucker, 


13 M. H. 

Place. 


tUpham, 


16 M. H. 
Page. 


* tWalker, 


Mrs. Bowker's. 


*Webb, 


27 M. H. 
May (Sophomore). 


Wheeler, 


Rev. Mr. Wheeler's. 



Sophomore Year. 


Junior Year. 


Senior Year. 


9M. H. 


19 A. H. 


11 M, H. 


Pendergast (F'man). 


Henderson (F'man). 


Pendergast (Junior). 


32 A. H. 


4 A.H. 


4 A.H. 


Carruthers. 


Carruthers. 


Carruriiers. 


12 M. H. 


27 A. H. 


26 A. H. 


Langdon. 


Langdon. 


Langdon. 


M. H. 


25 A H. 


25 A. H. 


Daggett (Fr'man). 


J. W. Emery. 


J. W. Emery. 


22 A. H. 

Southgate (Senior). 


20 A. H. 


20 A. H. 


3 A.H. 

Adams. 


11 A. H. 


18 A. H. 
Hewitt (Soph'more). 


C. Thompson's. 










8 A. H. 


8 A.H. 


8 A.H. 


Todd (Freshman), 


Todd (Sopliomore). 


Todd (Junior). 


16 A. H. 


10 A. H. 


10 A. H. 


Wood (Freshman). 


Wood (Sophomore). 


Wood (Junior). 


Rev. Mr. Wheeler's. 


Rev. Mr. Wheeler's. 


Rev. Mr. Wheeler's. 



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VIII. — SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP. 

" Dispersed in bands and files." — Milton, Paradise Lost, V, 651, 
" Members in particular." — i Cor. xii. 27. 

Athenaetn. — Carruthers, fR. W. Cummings, Downes, Drew, *tDrummond, 
J. W. Emery, M. Emery, Foss, Fuller, Goodenow, *Kimball, Langdon, 
Pond, *Puffer, *Southgate, Spaulding, fThompson, Todd, fTucker, 
Wheeler. — 20. 

Peucinian. — Adams, fCrosby, E. C. Cummings, McArthur, McKeen, Page, 
Place, Simonton, tUpham, *Webb. — 10. 

A. A. 4>. — fR. W. Cummings, tKidder, McKeen. — 3. 

A. K, E. — *tBarton, tCrosby, E. C. Cummings, *tDrummond, J. W. Emery, 
Langdon, Page, *Puffer, Simonton, fTucker, tUpham, *tWalker, Wheeler. 

— 13- 
X. ^. — Drew, Fuller, *Kimball. — 3. 
"^.t. — Adams, Carruthers, Downes, M. Emery, Goodenow, Pond, *Southgate, 

Spaulding, Todd, *Webb. — 10. 
*. B. K.— *Southgate, *Webb, Spaulding, E. C. Cummings, *Pufrer, Fuller, 

Drew, Adams. — 8. 

Note. — In 1873 Wheeler was unanimously elected a member of this Fraternity. tUpham 
belongs to the Dartmouth Chapter. 

Freshman Debating C/?<;<5. — Adams, Carruthers, tCrosby, Cummings (ist), 
tCummings (2d), Downes, *tDrummond, M. Emery, Fuller, Goodenow, 
*Kimball, McArthur, McKeen, Page, Place, Pond, Simonton, *Southgate, 
Spaulding, fThompson, Todd, fTucker, fUpham, *Webb, Wheeler. — 25. 

Alpha Beta Fraternity. — f Cummings (2d), Downes, M. Emery, Goodenow, 
McArthur, Spaulding, Todd, *Webb. — 8. 

Our Society. — Adams, Carruthers, M. Emery, Goodenow, Pond, *Southgate, 
Spaulding, Todd, *Webb. — 9. 

Granite Club. — M. Emery, Fuller, *Kimball, McKeen, Page, Simonton, Spaul- 
ding, Wheeler. — 8. 

Scott and Graham Club. — Adams, Carruthers, E. C. Cummings, Downes, Drew, 
*fDrummond, Goodenow, McArthur, Pond, *Southgate, *Webb. — 11. 

Free-soil Club. — * Puffer. — i. 

Praying Circle. — Adams, Carruthers, E. C. Cummings, *fDrurrmond, Pond, 
flJpham. — 6. 

Note — Foss, McArthur, Place, and fThompson were not members of any of the Greek letter 
societies. J. W. Emery, Foss, Langdon, Place, and Todd belonged to no political association. 
Puffer, it is thought, was president of the Free-soil Club. 



g6 iSoiutroin College. 

IX. — AGE AT GRADUATION. 

(Commencement, September 7, 1853.) 

"Unrough youths, that even now 
Protest their first of manhood." — Shakespeare, Macbeth, v. ii. 
"All of them desirable young men." — Ezek. xxiii. 6. 

31. — Adams (4 m. 9 d.). — i. 

28. — Foss (2 m. 18 d.) ; E. C. Cummings {5 d.). — 2. 

25. — Spaulding {13 d.). — i. 

24. — J. W. Emery (7 m.) ; *Webb (2 m. 6 d.). — 2. 

23. — Simonton (11 m. 14 d.) ; Drew (9 m. 26 d.) ; Langdon (7 m. 6 d.); 

M. Emery (i m. 14 d.). — 4. 
22. — Pond (2 m. 15 d.). — I. 
21. — Page (10 m. 28 d.) ; Place (7 m. 3 d.) ; Todd (2 m. 19 d.) ; McArthur 

(2 m.). — 4. 
20. — Downes (11 m. 21 d.) ; McKeen (10 m. 23 d.); *Kimball (8 m. 5 d.); 

Fuller (6 m. 7 d.); *Southgate (i m. 13 d.). — 5. 

19. — *Puffer (11 m. 27 d.) ; Wheeler (9 m. 24 d.) ; Goodenow (2 m. 15 d.)- —3. 

18. — Carruthers (i m. 19 d.). — i. 

(Average age about 22 years, 3 months.) 



X. — DEGREES RECEIVED. 

•' Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the bal- 
ance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." — Ps. Ixii. 9. 

(a.) In Course. 

A.B., Bowdoin. — Adams, Carruthers, E. C. Cummings, Downes, Drew, *tDrum- 
mond [post mortem)^ J. W. Emery, M. Emery, Foss, Fuller, Goodenow, 
*Kimball, Langdon, McArthur, McKeen, Page, Place, Pond, *Puffer, 
Simonton, *Southgate, Spaulding, fThompson (1855), Todd, *Webb, 
Wheeler. — 26. 

A.B., Dartmotith. — fUpham. — i. 

A.M., Bowdoin. — Adams, Carruthers, E. C. Cummings, Downes, Drew, J. W. 
Emery, M. Emery, Foss, Fuller, Goodenow, *Kimball, McKeen, Page, 
Simonton, *Southgate, Spaulding, Todd, *Webb, Wheeler. — 19. 

A.M., Dartmouth. — tUpham. — i. 

M.D., Bowdoin. — McKeen. — i. 

M.D., Edinburgh. — Todd. — i. 

M.D., Harvard. — Foss. — i. 

M.D., Jefferson Medical College. — *tWalker. — i. 

M.D., New York Medical College. — fR. W. Cummings. — I. 



Class 0f 1853. 



97 



(b.) Honorary. 

A.B., Bowdoin, — Crosby ( 1873), ^^^^ ^f course. — i. 
A.M., Harvard, — Wheeler (1871). — i. 



XL — MARRIAGES. 

" 'i2f (5' Zdev, (5f iiw epog tcvklvuq (bpivag a//0e/caADT/;£V." — Homer, H/at/, xiv. 294. 
' Monsieur, dans ces mati6res-la, il faut proceder avec ciiconspection, et ne rien faire, comme on dit, 
a la volee." — Moli^re, L' Amour Medect'n, ii. 5. 

(a.) Alphabetically. 



Adams 


( *Louisa A. Harding, 
( Lucy C. Adams, 


Sedgwick, 


Aug. 12, 


i855. 


XX\_tCVJ.X10a 


Camden, 


May 7, 


1861. 


Carrutliers, 


( *Martha W. Baker, 
( Mary L. Hayes, 


Goshen, Mass., 


June 23, 


1858. 


/ 


Somerville, Mass. 


, Sept. 7, 


1865. 


tCrosby, 


Rosa M. Lunt, 


Bangor, 


Sept. 27, 


, 1855. 


Cummings (E. C. 


), Annie L. Pomeroy, 


Portland, 


Oct. 18, 


1866. 


, „ . ,_ --^ , C*Alice I. Waterhouse, 
^^""""■"^^(^^•'lEunice F.Miner, 


Boston, Mass., 
Knoxville, Tenn., 


May 20, 
Mar. 14, 


1857. 
1865. 


Downes, 


Vashti H. Whidden, 


Presque Isle, 


June 4, 


1862. 


Drew, 


Livonia P. Rust, 


Augusta, 


Oct. 17, 


1855- 


Emery (J. W. ), 


Elizabeth J. Brown, 


Bunkerhill, Tex., 


Jan. 19, 


i860. 


Foss, 


Alice M. Good, 


Cincinnati, O., 


Feb. 5, 


1867. 


Fuller, 


( *Calista 0. Reynolds, 
( Mary E. Coolbaugh, 


Chicago, III,, 


June 28, 


1858. 


Chicago, 111., 


May 30, 


1866. 


Goodenow, 


Mary E, Brown, 


Bangor, 


Dec. 4, 


i860. 


tKidder, 


Rebecca Jeffery, 


Brooklyn, N.Y., 


Feb. 15, 


1865. 


*Kimball, 


Elizabeth A. Potter, 


Brunswick, 


June I, 


1854. 


Langdon, 


Annie E. Merrill, 


Exeter, N.H., 


Mar. I, 


1857- 


McKeen, 


Frances C. Chase, 


Tops ham. 


Mar. 12, 


1862. 


Page, 


Caroline G. Marshall, 


Washington, D.C. 


, Dec. 25, 


1856. 


Pond, 


*Jane W. Baird, 


Portsmouth, O., 


Mar. 18, 


1858. 


Simonton,. 


Josephine Hall, 


Topsham, 


Oct. 29, 


1856. 


Spauldingj 


Lavinia Spencer, 


Erie, Penn., 


June 6, 


1864. 


Todd, 


j *Mary E. Porter, 
( Hattie T. Houghton, 


Milltown, N.B., 


Nov. 4, 


1857. 


Princeton, 111., 


May 12, 


1863. 


tUpham, 


Anna H. Janeway, 


Kingston, N.J., 


June 3, 


1861. 


*t Walker, 


Augusta Webster, 


Barnstead, N.H., 


Sept. 14, 


1854. 


*Webb, 


Mary F. (D wight) Richmond, 


, Hallowell, 


May 27, 


1858. 


Wheeler, 


Olive W. Frazar, 


Duxbury, Mass., 


July 13, 


1856. 



•*tKimball (June 



(b.) By Years. 
*tWalker (Sept. 14). — 2. 



1854. 

1855. — Adams (Aug. 12); tCrosby (Sept. 27) ; Drew (Oct. 17). — 3. 
1856. — Wheeler (July 13); Simonton (Oct. 29); Page (Dec. 25). — 3. 
1857. — Langdon (March i) ; tR. W. Cummings (May 20) ; Todd (Nov. 4). — 3. 
13 



98 



oiotjoin College, 



.1858. — Pond (March 18); *Webb (May 17); Carruthers (June 23); Fuller 

(June 28).— 4. 
i860. — J. W, Emery (Jan. 19); Goodenow (Dec. 4). — 2. 

1861. — tUpham (June 3). — i. 

1862. — McKeen (March 12) ; Downes (June 4). — 2. 

1863. — Todd, again (May 12). — i. 

1864. — Spaulding (June 6). — i. 

1865. —tKidder (Feb. 15); fR. W. Cummings, again (March 14); Carruthers, 
again (Sept. 7). — 3. 

1866. — Fuller, «^^/« (May 30) ; E. C. Cummings (Oct. 18). — 2. 

1867. — Foss (Feb. 5). — i. 



XII. — CHILDREN. 



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rervKTai, /xeyav reAcGdevTa (jxjrdg 69il3ov 
TEKVOvadat, fj.r}6' urraida •&vt]ok£lv.'''' — ^schylus, Agam., 725. 

,,1)\i S«ube ter (Sltern i'lBer i^ve 5tinbei- ift tie kitigfte greiibe bee 9JJen^i)^eit." — Pestalozzi. 
(a.) According to Fathers' Names. 

Deaths. 

















Boys. 


Girls. 


Total. 


Adams 
Carruthers . 












5 . 


I 


5 
I 


tCrosby 
Cummings (ist) . 












3 


I 


4 


tCummings (2d) 
Downes 














2 


2 


Drew 
















I 


I 


Emery (ist) 
Foss 














4 
I 


3 


7 
I 


Fuller 














I 


6 


7 


Goodenow 














3 


2 


5 ■ 


tKidder . 
*Kimball . 














2 


I 
I 


3 

I 


Langdon 
McKeen 














I 


I 


I 

I 


Page 
Pond 














2 
4 


4 
4 


6 

8 


Simonton 














I 


I 


2 


Spaulding 
Todd 














3 


2 

I 


5 

I 


tUpham 

*tWalker 

*\Vebb 














3 


3 

2 


6 

2 


Wheeler 














2 


3 


5 


Total 














35 


39 


74 



10 



Total living (1873), 64. 



Criass of 1853* 99 

(b.) By Years. 

1855. -.*Kimball (a girl, Dec. 6). — i. 

1856. — tCrosby (a boy, Aug. 10). — I. 

1858.— tCrosby (a girl, May 2) ; Simonton (a girl, Nov. 10) ; Langdon (a boy, 

Nov. 25) ; Wheeler (a girl, Dec. 30). — 4. 
1859. — Pond (a boy, March 14) ; Page (a girl, March 30). —2. 
i860. — Todd (a girl, March 20); Wheeler (a boy, Oct. 19); Pond (a girl, 

Oct. 25).— 3. 
1861. — Drew (a girl, Feb. 3) ; J. W. Emery (a girl, March 3) ; Page (a girl, 

June 10) ; Fuller (a girl, July 31) ; Simonton (a boy, Aug. 17) ; Goodenow 

(a girl, Oct. 28). — 6. 
1862.— *Webb (a girl, Jan. 11); fCrosby (a boy, April 5); fUpham (a girl,* 

May 6); Pond (a boy, July 31); Adams (a boy,* Dec. i ); Goodenow 

(a boy, Dec. 15).— 6. 

1863. — Wheeler (a girl, Jan. 12); J. W. Emery (a boy, March 18); tUpham, 

(a girl, April 3) ; McKeen (a girl, April 16) ; tCrosby (a boy, Dec. 
12). —5. 

1864. — Fuller (a girl, Jan. 7) ; Pond (a boy, *Feb i ) ; Page (a boy, Feb. 14). — 3. 

1865. — Goodenow (a boy, Feb. 27) ; Spaulding (a boy, March 13) ; J. W. Em- 

ery (a boy, April 21) ; *Webb (a girl, June 22) ; Wheeler (a boy, Aug, 
i) ; tUpham {a boy, Aug. 28) ; Adams (a boy, Oct. 6). — 7. 
1866. — tKidder (a girl, March 12) ; Page (a boy,* July 29) : Pond (a girl, Aug. 
24) ; Spaulding (a boy, Aug. 26). — 4. 

1867. — Fuller (a girl, March 17); J. W. Emery (a girl, March 23); Adams 

(a boy, July 19) ; tUpham (a girl, Sept. 2) ; tK. W. Cummings (a girl, 
Sept. 23). — 5. 

1868. — Foss (a boy, Jan, 29) ; Spaulding (a girl, March 18) ; Page (a girl, July 

27) ; Wheeler (a girl, Sept. 24) ; Adams (a boy,* Nov. 12). — 5. 

1869. — Fuller (a girl, Jan. i); Carruthers (a girl,* Feb. 9); Pond (a boy, 

March 18); J. W. Emery (a girl, April i) ; tKidder (a boy, Aug. 27); 
tR. W. Cummings (a girl,* Sept. 15) ; tUpham (a boy, Sept. 30). — 7. 

1870. — Fuller (a girl, May 2) ; J. W. Emery (a boy, Dec. i ) ; Goodenow (a boy, 

Dec. 24). — 3. 

1871. — Page (a girl, March 2); Pond (twin- daughters,* March 5); tUpham 

(a boy, Aug. 12) ; Adams (a boy, Sept. 6) ; Spaulding (a boy, Sept. 26) ; 
Fuller (a boy, Oct. 12). — 7. 

1872. — Goodenow (a girl, Sept. 24); J. W. Emery (a boy,* Nov: 18); Spaul- 

ding (a girl, Dec. 9)-— 3- 

1873. — Fuller (a girl, Jan. 25) ; tKidder (a boy, Maich 8). — 2, 

Note. — For names, etc., of children, see under the names of their fathers in the biographical 
part of this record. 



loo Bobtiotn College. 



XIII. — UNMARRIED. 

"''O juaKapiov fi,' 'enel yvvacK' oh Aa/z^/Savw." — Menander, Adelph. i. 

" Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye 

That thou consum'st thyself in single life?" — Shakespeare, Son, ix. 

* fDrummond, M. Emery, Mc Arthur, Place, *Puffer, *Southgate, t Thompson, 
tTucker, *tBarton. — 9. 



XIV. — WIDOWERS. 

(July, 1873.) 

" Sunt lachrymae rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt." — Virgil, ^neid, i. 462. 

Pond. — I. 

Note. — For widowers who married again, see Adams (p. 37), Carruthers (p. 39), fK- W. Cum- 
mings (p. 42), Fuller (p. 51), Todd (p. 71). 



XV. — DIVORCED. 

*' Lugete, O Veneres, Cupidinesque." — Catullus, Carnt. iii. 
*Kimball (1858). — i. 

XVI. — DEATHS. 

" J\.EvQtlv Sk fierpiug roiig TrpoGTjKovrag (pl^iovg' 
ov -yap reOvacLV, uXka rrjv avT^v 666v, 
7]v TTuacv eTidelv egt' avayKalcog exov, 
'KpoeXrjTi.vdaoLV.^'' — Antiphanes, Aphrodisius (fragm.). 

(a.) Years. 

1853. — fDrummond (Aug. 28). — i. 

1854. — tBarton (Feb- i) ; Puffer (Oct. 27).— 2. 
1855.— tWalker (July 14). — !. 

1862. — Southgate (Feb. 7).— i. 

1863. — Kimball (June 19). — i. 
1869. — Webb (Nov. 20) — i. 



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(b.) Ages. 

21. — Puffer (i m. i6 d.) ; fBarton (lo m. 24 d.). — 2. 

22. — IDrummond (i m. 17 d.). — i. 

27. — t Walker (6 m. 10 d.). — i. 

28. — Southgate {6 m. 13 d.). — i. 
30. — Kimball (5 m. 18 d.). — i. 
40. — Webb (8 m. 7 d.). — r. 

(c.) States. 

Maine. — fBarton, Southgate, Webb. — 3. 

New Hampshire. — fDrummond, Puffer, f Walker. — 3. 

Virginia. — Kimball. — i. 

(d.) Towns. 

Aldie, Va. — Kimball. — i. 

Barnstead, N.H. — t Walker. — i. 

Grafton, N.H. — Puffer, — i. 

North Conway, N.H. — fDrummond. — i. 

Scarborough. — Southgate. — I. 

Sidney. — fBarton. — i. 

Winthrop. — Webb. — i . 



(Average age, 27 years. 



(3 states.) 



(7 towns.) 



Note. — For wives deceased and for children deceased, see under the names of their husbands 
or their fathers, in the biographical part of this work. 



XVII.— PRESENT (1873) RESIDENCE. 

" And he said unto them, Whence come ye ? " — Gen. xHi. 7. 

" Each in their several active spheres assigned." — Milton, Par. Lost, V, 477. 



(a.) States. 

Maine. — Adams, Carruthers, f Crosby, E. C. Cummings, Downes, M. Emery, 

Goodenow, McArthur, McKeen, Pond, Simonton. — 11. 
New Hampshire. — Langdon. — I. 

Massachusetts. ■ — Place, f Thompson, f Tucker, W^heeler. — 4. 
New York. — f Kidder, Page. — 2. 
Pennsylvania. — Spaulding, f Upham. — 2. 
Illinois. — Fuller. — I. 
Minnesota. — f R. W. Cummings. — i. 
Texas. — J. W. Emery. — i. 
Kansas. — Foss. — i. 
District of Columbia. — Drew. — I. 
New Brunswick. — Todd. — i. (9 states, i district, I province.) 



102 JSoiDtJoin College* 

(b.) Towns. 

Bangor. — fCrosby, M. Emery, Goode- New York City. — Page. — I. 

now. — 3. Owego^ N. V. — fKidder. — i. 

Boston, Mass. — Wheeler. — i. Philadelphia, Penn. — tUpham. — I. 

Calais. — Carruthers. -^ i. Plymouth, N.H. — Langdon. — i. 

Camden. — Simonton. — i. Portland. — E. C. Cummings. — i. 

Chicago, 111. — Fuller. — i. Presque Isle. — Dovvnes. — I. 

Erie, Petin. — Spaulding. — I. St. Marfs, Kan. — Foss. — i. 

Hampden. — Pond. — i. St. Stepheiis, N.B. — Todd. — I. 

Kaufman, Tex. — J. W. Emery. — I. Sear sport. — Adams. — i. 

Limington. — McArthur. — i. Somerville, Mass. — tThompson. — I. 

Lynn, Mass. — Place. — i. Topsham. — McKeen. — i. 

Min7ieapolis, Minn. — tR. W. Cum- Washington, D.C. — Drew. — I. 

mings. — I. West Upton, Mass. — tTucker. — i. 

(24 cities and towns.) 



XVIII. — OCCUPATIONS, ETC. 

"Vide quam sit varia vitae commutabilisque ratio." — Cicero, Pro Milone, xxvi. 

Aldermen. — M. Emery (Bangor, 1859) ; Goodenow (Lewiston, 1865, 66). — 2. 

Apothecary and Dritggist. — tR. W. Cummings (1870, 71). — I. 

Assessor. — tCrosby (Bangor, 1871, 72). — I. 

Authors. — E. C. Cummings, Wheeler. — 2. 

Book-keeper. — Place. — " . 

Carpenter. — tTucker. — i. 

City Solicitors. — Fuller (Augusta, 1856) ; Goodenow (Bangor, 1871-73). — 2. 

Clergymen. — Adams, Carruthers, E. C. Cummings, tKidder, Pond, *Southgate, 

Spaulding, tUpham, — 8. 
Clerks. — tCrosby (merchant's, 1852-55); tR. W. Cummings (druggist's, 1852-54); 
Drew (in War Department, 1864, 65) ; Fuller (office of clerk of courts, 
Penobscot County, Me., 1855); Page (Pension Office), 1855; Place 
(merchant's, 1853-61, 66-71); J. W. Emery (clerk of courts, Texas, 
1862).— 7. 
Collector [Deputy). — Simonton (Camden 1861- 66, 67-73). — i. 
Common Cotincilmen. — Fuller (Augusta, 1856, president of the board) ; Goode- 
now (Lewiston, 1864). — 2. 
Contractor. — Page. — i. 

County Attorney. — Simonton (Knox County, i860). — i. 
Dealer in Farm- Machinery and Grain. — Langdon (1868). — I. 
Delegates. — M. Emery (to Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1864, 
andat New York, 186S) ; Fuller (to Illinois Constitutional Convention 
1861-62, and to Baltimore Convention (Democratic), 1872). — 2. 
Dentist. — Foss. — i. 

Editors. — M. Emery, Fuller, tR. W. Cummings, Simonton. — 4. 
Express Agent. — Langdon (1870 -73 ). — i. 
Flour and Grain Dealer, — Langdon (1856). — i. 



daiss of 1853* 103 

Freedman' s Biireaic [Chief of Claims and Bounty Division). — Drew (1864-71). — I. 

Grocer ( Wholesale). — tCrosby. — i. 

Judges. — Downes (probate, 1854-73) > Goodenow (police court, Bangor, 

1873). — 2. 
Lawyers. — Downes, M. Emery, Fuller, Goodenow, *Kimball, McArthur, Page, 

Simonton. — 8. 
Lexicographers. — Drew, Wheeler. — 2. 
Librarian. — Wheeler. — I. 

Life- Insurance and Claims Agent. — fR. W. Cummings (1867). — i. . 

Lumber Dealer. — fCrosby (1868-73). — i. 
National Bank Examiner. — Drew (1872, 73). — I. 
Overseer of Bowdoin College. — Todd. — i. 
Physicians. — fR. W. Cummings, Foss, McKeen, Todd. — 4. 
Postmaster. — J. W. Emery. — i. 

Private Secretary. — Drew (in 1860-63, to Gov. Washburn of Maine). — I. 
Professors. — Drew (at Tufts College, 1854-57); E. C. Cummings (at Bowdoin, 

1872-73). — 2. 
Real-estate Agent. — Page. — i. 
Representatives to Les^islature. — Fuller (Illinois, 1 862, 63); McArthur (Maine, 

1867) ; *Webb (Maine, 1861, 65, 69). —3. 
Ship-Chandler. — tCrosby ( r 862 ). — I. 
Ship-Builder. — tCrosby ( 1862 ). — i. 
Secretary of Commission on Clai7ns between the United States and Great Britain. — 

tUpham (1853-55). — I. 
Special Attorney for the Departmeiit of the Interior. — Page. — I . 
State Senator. — McArthur (Maine, 1869). — i. 
Teachers. — Adams (1853-56) ; E. C. Cummings (1853) ; J. W. Emery (1854-73) ; 

M. Emery (1853-56) ; Foss (1872) ; Goodenow (1853, 54) ; Page (1853-54); 

*Pufifer (1853) ; Spaulding (1853, 54) ; Wheeler (1853-56). — 10. 
Theatrical Manci<rer. — fR, W. Cummings (1859). — I. 

Treasurers. — tCrosby (Bangor, 1873) ; *Webb (Winthrop, 1862-69). — 2. 
Tutors (Bowdoin College). — E. C. Cummings (1854) ; *Webb (1854, 55). — 2. 

Note — There have been in the army, Adams, E. C. Cummings, fR. W, Cummings, *Kim- 
ball, McArthur, McKeen, Place, tUpham. — 8. 
In the navy, Foss. — i. 

(46 occupations.) 



XIX. PRESENT PROFESSION OR OCCU- 
PATION (1873). 

"Tell us, we prr.y thee, . . . what is thine occupation?" — Jonah, i. 8. 
" Lstus sorte tua vives sapienter, Aristi.'^ — Horace, Epist. Lib. I, x. 

Clergymen. — Adams, Carruthers, E. C. Cummings, tKidder, Pond, Spaulding, 

tUpham. — 7 (5 Congregationalist, 2 Episcopalian). 
Lawyers. — Downes, Fuller, Goodenow, McArthur, Simonton. — 5. 
Physiciajts. — tR. W. Cummings, Foss, McKeen, Todd. — 4. 
Editors. — M. Emery, Simonton. — 2. ' . - 

Judges, — Downes, Goodenow. — 2, 



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Teachers. — J. W. Emery, Foss. — 2. 
Book- Keeper. — Place. — i. 
Carpenter. — fTucker. — i. 
Deputy-Collector, — Simonton. — i. 
Express Agettt. — Langdon. — i. 
Librarian, etc. — Wheeler. — i. 
Merchant, — fCrosby. — i. 
National Bank Examiner, — Drew. — i. 
City Treasurer. — fCrosby. — I. 
Real-Estate A^ent, — Page. — i. 



'15 professions or occupations.) 



XX. — PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS. 

" Eat quacunque, puellis 
Injiciat curam quserendi singula ; quali 
Sit facie, sura quali, pede, dente, capillo." — Horace, Sat. Lib. I, vi. 31. 

" A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, — 
Framed in the prodigality of nature, — 
The spacious world cannot again afford." — Shakespeare, Richard III, iii. 2. 



Names. 



Height. 



Adams 


5.iii 


Carruthers 


5-7 


tCrosby 


5.ioi 


Cummings (ist) 


5.8 


tCummings (2d) 


510 


Downes 


5-7 


Drew 


511 


Emery (ist) 


5.7i 


Emery (2d) 


5-9l 


Foss 


5.5 


Fuller 


5-5 


Goodenow 


5.8i 


tKidder 


• 5-7 


Langdon 


57 


McArthur 


5-6i 


McKeen 


5-11^ 


Page 


6.1 


Place 


5-4 


Pond 


511 


Simonton - 


5 7i 


Spaulding 


6.1 


Todd 


5.10 


tTucker 


5.9^ 


tUpham 


5.8 


"Wheeler 


r.to 



Weight. 


Eyes, 


Hair. 


Complexion. 


181 


Blue 


Brown 


Florid 


126 


Hazel 


Dark brown 


Dark 


170 


Hazel 


Auburn 


Light 


140 


Blue 


Brown 


Light 


165 


Brown 


Brown 


Dark 


200 


Blue 


Brown 


Light 


150 


Black 


Dark brown 


Dark 


135 


Black 


Dark 


Sallow 


135 


Blue 


Light brown 


Light 


140 


Blue 


Brown 


Light 


130 


Grayish blue 


Brown 


Light 


147 


Gray 


Brown 


Light 


161 


Gray 


Light brown 


Pale 


125 


Blue 


Light 


Light 


140 


Hazel 


Dark 


Light 


260 


Black 


Dark brown 


Dark 


212 


Hazel 


Dark brown 


Light 


160 


Hazel 


Dark brown 


Light 


144 


Gray 


Black 


Light 


185 


Blue 


Brown 


Florid 


205 


Blue 


Brown 


Light 


180 


Dark gray 


Dark brown 


Dark 


142^ 


Grayish blue 


Light sandy 


Light 


147 


Grayish blue 


Black 


Clear and pale 


165 


Hazel 


Auburn 


Light 



(Average height 5ft. 7-f in. ; average weight 161 f-f" lbs.) 



(JTIass of 1S53. 105 



XXI.— NON-GRADUATES, AND THE TIME 
OF THEIR LEAVING THE CLASS. 

" Some fell by the wayside. . . . And these are they." — Mark iv. 4, 15. 

During the Freshman Year. — Tucker (regularly dismissed April 26, 1850); 
*Walker (regularly dismissed March, 1850) ; Upham (at the end of the 
year).— 3. 

During Sophomore Year. — Kidder (end of fall term) ; Thompson (spring term, 

1851); R. W. Cummings (spring term, 1851). — 3. 
During Junior Yea^r. — Crosby (regularly dismissed April 10, 1852). — i. 
During Senior Year. — *Barton (end of fall term) ; *Drummond (died August 

28, eight days before the Class graduated). — 2. 



XXIL— GRADUATES OF OTHER 
CLASSES. 

•* Navis se tarda movebat ; 
Vela facit tamen, et plenis subit ostia velis." — Virgil, ^netd, V, 280. 

1855. — tThompson. — i. 



XXIII. — GRADUATES OF OTHER 
COLLEGES. 

" To fresh woods and pastures new." — Milton, Lycidas, 193. 

" I pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg." — Shakespeare, Hatnlet, i. 2. 

Dartmouth, 1855. — tUpham. — i. 



XXIV.— GENERAL SUMMARY. 

" Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter." — Eccles. xii. 13. 

Whole number in the Class at the beginning of the Freshman Year. — 26. 
Largest number in the Class at any one time (beginning of Sophomore Year). — 28. 
Whole number connected with the Class during the college course. — 33. 



io6 23obliont College. 

Average age at entrance (Freshmen), i8 years, 3 months ; (Sophomores) 20 

years, 2 months. 
Oldest member of Class. — fTucker. 
Youngest member. — Carruthers. 
Whole number of graduates. — 24. 

Average age of graduates. — About 22 years, 3 months. 
Whole number of non-graduates. — 9. 
Graduated at Bowdoin in 1855. — i. 
Graduated at Dartmouth. — i. 
Members of Athenasan Society. — 20. 
Members of Peucinian Society. — 10. 
Members of the 4». B. K. — 10. 
Members of the Freshman Debating Club. — 25. 
Members of the A. A. <i>. — 3. 
Members of the A. K. E. — i^. 
Members of the. X i'. — 3. 
Members of the 'f.T. — 10. 
Members of the Alpha Beta Fraternity. — 8. 
Members of " Our Society." — 9. 
Members of the Scott and Graham Club. — 11. 
Members of the Granite Club. — 8. 
Members of the Free-soil Club. — i. 
Members of the Praying Circle. — 6. 
Members of no Greek letter Societies. — 4. 
Deaths of Classmates. — 7. 
Average age at death, 27 years. 
Deceased while in college. — i. 
Classmates unmarried. — 9. 
Classmates married. — 24. 
Classmates married a second time. — 5. 
Divorces. — i. 

Widowers (1873). — i. (In all, 6.) 
Births of children. — 74. 
Deaths of children. — 10. 
Deaths of wives. — 6. 
Service in the army. — 8. 
Service in the navy. — i. 
Heaviest member. — McKeen (260 lbs.). 
Lightest member. — Langdon (125 lbs.). 
Average weight. — 161 ^'-f~ ^^^- 

Tallest members. — Page and Spaulding (6 feet i inch). 
Shortest member. — Place (5 feet 4 inches). 
Average height. — 5 ft. y-\- in. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



Page 4, line 17, omzY John S. Tucker. 

Note. — The "Entrance Book" of the college puts Tucker down among those examined and 
admitted to the Freshman Class on Friday, the 7th of September, 1849; but this is an error. 
His examination was a private one, and took place Monday, October i. 

Fage 5, /me 17, ^/?^r November 22, insert (Thursday); line 22, yi^r twenty-five 
read twenty-six ; line 23, after Carruthers insert Crosby. 

Page 9, line 12, for Spiers's and Surenne's read Spiers and Surenne's. 

Page 15, line 15, for the fire, work read fire, the work. 

Page 28, line 14, for fifteen read fourteen. 

Page 40, add, at the bottom of the page, Degrees received. A.B., Bowdoin, 1873 
(honorary). 



"Claudite jam rivos, pueri, sat prata biberunt." — Virgil, Eclogue III, no. 



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H^c . . . scripsi, . . . non otii abundantia, sed amoris erga te. 

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